Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 2.5, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Digital Television

Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 2.5, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Digital Television
Update enhances support for text composition with simultaneous release of Bitstream Panorama

CAMBRIDGE, MA — June 22, 2004 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the release of Font Fusion 2.5, the company's smallest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today.

"We are very pleased to announce the completion of Font Fusion 2.5. This release enhances our support for Bitstream Panorama, a new text composition engine for consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, and embedded systems," said Anna Chagnon, President and CEO of Bitstream. "Font Fusion is a small, fast, and portable font rendering engine. It works well in environments where memory and performance are issues. In addition, Font Fusion solves problems for companies developing products for digital TV and set-top box markets. With this release of Font Fusion, we have solidified our position as the leading font rendering technology for digital TVs, set-top boxes, and embedded systems."

The following features were added for the Font Fusion 2.5 release:

Integration support for the Bitstream Panorama global text composition engine
New demo for calculating the size of an implementation on the fly, depending on features enabled
Easier control of configurable compile-time options
New functionality for modifying color tables
Improved stroke-based font output

About Font Fusion
Font Fusion is a small, fast, portable, memory-efficient font rendering engine for consumer electronics devices, PDAs, mobile phones, set-top boxes, graphics applications, and embedded systems. Together with Bitstream Panorama, it provides a complete font rendering and text composition solution.

Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic output at any resolution on any device. Most developers can compile the source code in 32-105 KB, depending on features enables. It generates more than 37,000 characters per second, rendering a TrueType font at 25 lines per em on a 450 MHz Pentium II processor.

Available as an SDK (Software Developers' Kit), Font Fusion renders a wide variety of industry-standard and compact font formats: OpenType, TrueType, Type 1, CFF/Type2, T2K Latin, T2K Asian, TrueDoc PFR (portable font resource), Bitstream Speedo, and Font Fusion stroke (FFS) format, as well as embedded bitmaps. Developers can also license a number of different suites of fonts, including delta-hinted screen fonts, stroke-based Asian fonts, the Tiresias Screenfont, the CCTV Font Set, and the TV Font Pack.

About

Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company that focuses on the presentation of data. Bitstream enables customers worldwide to render high-quality text, browse the Web on wireless devices, select from the largest collection of fonts online, and customize documents over the Internet. Its core competencies include font technology, browsing technology, e-commerce technology, and publishing technology. Visit Bitstream on the Web at http://www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream, Font Fusion, Speedo, and TrueDoc are registered trademarks and the Bitstream logo and Bitstream Panorama are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. T2K is a registered trademark of Type Solutions, Inc., a Bitstream company. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Contact

Anna Chagnon
CEO
Bitstream Inc.
617.520.8619