| C-DAC and Bitstream Partner To Bring Indian Language Fonts to Developers Well-established Indian government institution establishes long-term relationship with Bitstream PUNE, INDIA and CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A. — June 22, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) and C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), GIST, Pune, India, today announced an agreement to bring a wide variety of classic and contemporary Indian language fonts to developers licensing Bitstream Font Fusion®, Bitstream’s premier font rendering technology, and Bitstream Panorama, a global text composition engine. C-DAC was established in March 1988 as a Scientific Society of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. C-DAC is primarily an R & D institution involved in the design, development and deployment of advanced information technology based solutions. C-DAC is a well-established organization with eleven offices in India. GIST Group is well-known for its work in Indian languages. GIST has become synonymous with the standards for Indian language applications in IT. “It is an exhilarating experience for the GIST team at C-DAC
to work with Bitstream, so that state-of-the-art solutions can be
provided to worldwide customers requiring Indian language support,”
stated S.Ramakrishnan, Director General of C-DAC. “With the
increasing demand of supporting Indian languages in all applications
and devices, this partnership will help C-DAC in its mission to
proliferate the usage of languages and ensure that everyone gets
the benefits of computerization. C-DAC looks forward to this collaboration
as a fruitful and long-lasting relationship with Bitstream.”
“We’re very pleased to work with the GIST Group at C-DAC to provide a complete solution for developers releasing their products in India,” stated Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream. “It’s necessary for our partners to support complex scripting languages, and it’s significant that a well-respected Indian government institution like C-DAC can support all the popular Indian languages and scripts. We look forward to working with the GIST Group to make this new partnership a success.” 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. Bitstream Panorama C-DAC and GIST Bitstream Bitstream and Font Fusion are registered trademarks and the Bitstream logo and Bitstream Panorama are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Contact Anna Chagnon Mr. S.Ramakrishnan |
