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Stroke-Based Fonts
Font Fusion is Bitstream's latest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, a font subsystem that renders high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any device. It works well in wireless Internet devices, personal digital assistants, set-top boxes, embedded systems, and Internet appliances.

Stroke-based FontsBesides using our small, fast, object-oriented font engine, you can also include our core set of delta-hinted fonts, our stroke-based Asian fonts, or any other Latin or non-Latin fonts in your resident font set.

Our code is very compact. For instance, the Font Fusion engine and a Traditional Chinese stroke-based font containing over 13,500 characters occupies less than 0.5 MB!

Our stroke-based CJK fonts feature:

All the specs are listed at the end of this document.


Compact Fonts

Stroke-based fonts are perfect for memory-constrained devices and applications. They are very compact. For instance, a 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!


High-Quality, Scalable Output

Our stroke-based characters are fully scaleable, unlike bitmaps. Note that you cannot scale bitmaps, anti-alias bitmapped characters, or optimize bitmaps for different displays, such as LCDs, TVs, personal digital assistants, or handheld PCs. Unlike bitmaps, our stroke-based characters improve legibility and readability: you can scale, anti-alias, and fine tune them for different displays.


Updateable Code

Because our stroke-based fonts are compact, you can store them in flash ROM and update them when needed.


Portability to Any Device or Application

Font Fusion and our stroke-based fonts can run on personal digital assistants, handheld PCs, wireless Internet devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, and Internet appliances.


Specifications
Language Primary Encoding Other Encoding
Simplified Chinese . Encoding: Unicode
. Size: 250KB

. Characters: 7,580
. Encoding: GB2312
. Size: 248KB
. Characters: 7,446
Traditional Chinese . Encoding: Unicode
. Size: 462KB
. Characters: 13,860
. Encoding: Big5
. Size: 460KB
. Characters: 13,711
Traditional Chinese with the Hong Kong Character Set

. Encoding: Unicode
. Size: 641KB
. Characters: 18,267

Also contains 3,013 additional character codes for double-encoded characters

. Encoding: Big5 and HK
. Size: 609KB
. Characters: 18,164
Japanese (Kanji) . Encoding: Unicode
. Size: 260KB
. Characters: 7,043

. Encoding: JIS 0208
. Size: 257KB
. Characters: 6,880

. Encoding: Shift-JIS
. Size: 260KB
. Characters: 7,038

Korean . Encoding: Unicode
. Size: 382KB
. Characters: 17,142
. Encoding: KSC5601-1987 with Hangul
. Size: 381KB
. Characters: 17,047

 


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