Bitstream can achieve over 2-to-1 compression from the original to compressed size of a font, depending on the font format, the complexity of the typeface design, the number of characters in the font, and the compression level chosen. For example:

• 37,000-character font under 1 MB: Bitstream's unified stroke-based CJK font, which includes over 37,000 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese (Kanji), and Korean characters, is under 1 MB with optimum compression



• 340-character font under 35 KB: the Tiresias Screenfont achieves over 2-to-1 compression. In TrueType format, it can be compressed down to 34 KB. In PFR (portable font resource) format, it can be compressed down to 14 KB.

Developers can choose the font compression level for optimal trade-offs between RAM/ROM savings and performance. The compression is lossless, which means there is no degradation in quality of the character output. The integrity of the characters is maintained, and every character is rendered 100% accurately, pixel for pixel.

The following features were added for the Font Fusion 3.0 release:

• Support for lossless font compression of any format Font Fusion is capable of rendering



• Random access decompression of any compressed font

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