| Bitstream Integrates Font Fusion with Symbian OS Leading font rendering solution for small embedded systems now working on leading operating system for data-enabled mobile phones CAMBRIDGE, MA — August 1, 2005 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that it has integrated Font Fusion® 3.0, the company’s smallest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today, with Symbian OS™. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the operating system that powers today’s most popular smartphones. Font Fusion is engineered for small embedded systems. The source code can be compiled in as little as 36 KB. Using Font Fusion, 100 MIPS CPUs can render between 2,400 to 3,300 characters per second. A premier font subsystem, Bitstream’s Font Fusion renders high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. Font Fusion supports all international languages. In addition to bitmaps, Font Fusion can render scalable outline and stroke-based characters. “Symbian OS is the leading development platform for data-enabled mobile phones and smartphones worldwide. Now hardware manufacturers and software developers can expand their font technology solutions and provide their customers with high-quality, scalable text,” said Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream Inc. “Scalable font rendering adds significant value to mobile and smart phones. Font Fusion, our premier font rendering engine, delivers outstanding scalable technology in a very small footprint. Bitstream’s Font Fusion will play a key role in delivering high-quality text display on smartphones. We are pleased to be working with Symbian in this high-growth market segment.” 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. Symbian OS is a trademark of Symbian Software Ltd. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Contact Bob Thomas |
