Bitstream Releases Latest Version of its Font Technology
March 06 2012 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced the latest upgrade
to the company's font technology, Bitstream Panorama™ and Bitstream
Font Fusion™. Bitstream Panorama is the worldwide text composition
engine that enables developers to compose and render text in any
language. Bitstream’s Font Fusion is a text rendering solution that
offers developers the fastest rendering speeds and best possible
text output of any font engine on the market today.
Both Panorama 7.0 and Font Fusion 7.0 are available now.
Bitstream Panorama 7.0
With Bitstream Panorama, OEMs and developers can layout,
position, substitute and render characters in all of the world’s
languages via a single, compact API. The latest version of
Bitstream Panorama, version 7.0, builds on the strength of the
product by adding new features that expand its capabilities on
different operating systems, increase performance, and offer
support for new languages.
Panorama is now available as a plug-in for iOS and Android
operating systems. The plug-in allows access to features like
better layout control, complex script support not supported by the
base system, and support for non-TTF font formats.
Panorama 7.0 also includes a scaling feature which allows users
to perform a pinching effect on rendered text, making this kind of
layout faster.
In addition, Panorama 7.0 also supports:
- Sinhala and Tibetan Script - The
Sinhala script is used mainly in Sri Lanka, while the Tibetan
script is used in Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and northern areas of
India.
- Native OTF is supported in Panorama
7.0. This advanced feature provides the option to apply OTF
features like superscript, subscript, fractions, scientific
inferiors, etc. even if the font does not support them.
- Increased performance using OTFP
coverage data by using embedded preprocessed data directly within
the fonts.
- Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF)
with open type fonts (OTF).
- Dynamic Font Array which allows any
number of fonts at run time.
Bitstream Font Fusion 7.0
Bitstream’s Font Fusion provides the highest quality, fastest
text output on any device, at any resolution. Its small footprint
is particularly well suited for mobile devices. It can render
virtually any font format, including bitmap, TrueType and
OpenType.
Font Fusion 7.0 includes:
- Support for optical axis of Multiple
Master (MM) fonts and the addition of a new API that works on the
actual rendered width of a device.
- A new feature called RenderPath that
enables passing of path data to Font Fusion. Font Fusion will then
render the path and return a bitmap buffer.
- SmartScale scales taller accented
characters to not exceed the standard capital letter height. This
new feature in Font Fusion 7.0 allows the actual height limit to be
specified.
- Support for the Standard Encoded
Accented Character (SEAC) command that allows the font to specify
the base character and the accent character and offset in a single
“endchar” command.
- The addition of new filters, including
a trim filter that removes all the blank lines from the rendered
glyph and updates glyph metrics accordingly.
- Several enhancements to the Font
Manager, including Unicode mapping which provides an easy way to
specify different fonts for different Unicode ranges.
About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. develops software technologies and applications
for the graphic art and mobile communications industries.
Bitstream’s award-winning fonts and font technologies enable device
manufacturers and application developers to render the highest
quality text in any language, on any device, at any resolution. The
company’s MyFonts brand is the world’s leading provider of fonts to
consumers. Bitstream’s Pageflex brand enables marketers to easily
produce customized communications in print, email and online. The
company’s latest offering is the BOLT mobile browser, which has
been installed by millions of users worldwide since its release in
February 2009. For more information
visit www.bitstream.com.
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.
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