| Bitstream Releases
Font Fusion 3.0, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Small Embedded
Systems Major release provides new support for font compression of all font formats CAMBRIDGE, MA — June 6, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the release of Font Fusion® 3.0, the company’s smallest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today. Font Fusion now includes built-in support for font compression, allowing Bitstream’s premier font engine to read and render industry-standard fonts, bitmap fonts, and outline fonts in compressed format. 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:
Developers can choose the font compression level for optimal trade-offs between RAM/ROM savings and performance. “With the strides we have made in font compression, random access decompression, and LCD output, our customers will be able to use high-quality fonts in small devices and embedded systems. Note that this is ‘lossless’ compression, 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,” stated Sampo Kaasila, Vice-President of Research and Development for Bitstream. “Developers can choose the compression level based on their device characteristics. This will enable our partners to integrate fonts into small devices, bringing a high-quality font solution to their customers.” The following features were added for the Font Fusion 3.0 release:
“We are very pleased to announce the completion of Font Fusion 3.0. This release provides new support for font compression, critical for developers building small embedded systems such as consumer electronics devices and mobile phones,” 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. With this release of Font Fusion, we have solidified our position as the leading font rendering technology for embedded systems.” About Font Fusion Font Fusion is both small and fast. Developers can compile the source code in 36 KB on up, depending on options. It generates more than 37,000 characters per second on a 450MHz Pentium II processor, rendering a TrueType font at 25 lines per em. Font Fusion is designed for consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, digital TVs, printers, graphics applications, and embedded systems. 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. Bitstream 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 |
