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.
Besides
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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