Bitstream Improves the Speed of Its Leading Font Rendering Solution for Small Embedded Systems

Font Fusion 3.3 Dramatically Improves Its Font Rendering Speed for Compressed Fonts

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the release of Font Fusion® 3.3. This release offers a significant increase in rendering speed for compressed fonts and reasserts Font Fusion’s dominant position as the fastest font engine available today.

The increased speed is due to the implementation of improved compression and decompression algorithms for compressed fonts. Earlier releases added many features to support memory-constrained devices such as support for compressed fonts and improvements to the cache management system. Developers can control the level of font compression depending on the device they need to support. The cache management system lets developers dynamically control the cache size and lets them store compressed characters, which also results in some increase in output speed. This latest release, however, focuses on speed increases by leveraging improvements in the compression technology of Font Fusion when working with compressed fonts.

“This release of Font Fusion builds on the momentum of the releases over the past year and raises our own standard for speed from a font rendering solution. We are committed to maintaining Font Fusion as the choice for worldwide developers who need a fast font rendering engine that can produce very high quality results,” stated Anna Chagnon, President and CEO of Bitstream.

About Font Fusion

Font Fusion is Bitstream’s premier font subsystem, rendering high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. Delivering exceptional text rendering for consumer electronics devices and mobile phones, Font Fusion is the ideal solution for small embedded systems, including consumer electronics devices, mobile handsets, 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®, Font Fusion stroke (FFS), BDF (bitmap distribution format) format, as well as embedded bitmaps. Developers can also license different suites of worldwide fonts, including a certified Chinese (PRC) font, 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 makes communications compelling. 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. For more information, please visit Bitstream at 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.