| License grant |
The btX2 solution allows
our partners to get everything they need - international fonts,
font rendering engine, responsive
engineering support, and commercial use of TrueType hints -
in one license agreement from one vendor. |
| Unsurpassed
speed
btX2 uses the fastest font engine on
the market, Font
Fusion, to render characters |
Renders characters quickly:
| Monochrome
(black-and-white) characters: * |
| Unhinted: |
37,714
bitmaps per second |
| Native
TrueType hinted: |
13,713
bitmaps per second |
| Anti-aliased (grayscale)
characters: * |
| Unhinted: |
25,543 bitmaps per
second |
| Native TrueType hinted: |
11,573 bitmaps per
second |
*450MHz Pentium
II processor, 256Kb of RAM, cache turned off, rendering the
Arial TrueType font at 25 lines per em |
| Hinting and extraordinary
quality |
Hinting,
such as native TrueType hinting, produces high-quality output
on any device. Sophisticated anti-aliasing and unique run-time
hinting also improve glyph output, especially characters rendered
at small point sizes on low-resolution devices. |
| Anti-aliasing |
Anti-aliasing
(sometimes called grayscaling) ensures smooth, well-defined
character edges at all resolutions. You can render up to 127
shades of gray (or other colors) to smooth the jagged edges
that often result when fixing character outlines to a grid. |
| Compact Asian stroke-based
fonts |
btX2 and stroke-based
fonts are perfect for memory-constrained devices and applications.
Our stroke-based fonts are very compact. For example, an Asian
stroke-based font with over 13,850 characters takes up less
than 0.5 MB. To put it another way, a typical stroke-based
font is the same size as one 16x16 monochrome bitmap font.
Our stroke-based characters are fully scalable, unlike bitmaps.
Unlike bitmaps, our stroke-based characters improve legibility
and readability: you can scale, anti-alias, and fine tune
them for different displays. |
| Support
for a variety of font formats |
btX2
renders the following industry-standard and compact font formats:
OpenType
TrueType
TrueType collections
PostScript Type 1
PFR
(the digital TV standard font format) *
T2K (like the PFR, a compact font format)
FFS (Font Fusion Stroke), a compact format for Asian fonts
Speedo (an open font standard for X11 Windows)
Embedded bitmaps
*The Digital
Audio Visual Council (DAVIC), which sets multimedia standards
for international broadcasting, adopted Bitstream's PFR
(portable font resource) as its standard font format. So did
the DTG (Digital TV Group, which coordinates standards for
Digital TV broadcasting in the United Kingdom) and the DVB
(Digital Video Broadcasting, a Swiss-based industry organization
representing one standard for digital TV, which has been adopted
extensively in Europe). The DVB also adopted the PFR as the
standard font for the MHP (Multimedia Home Platform), which
many set-top box and digital TV manufacturers are using as
their standard development platform. |
