Bitstream to Resell DiamondSoft's Font Reserve; Bitstream to Offer DiamondSoft's Font Reserve on the Bitstream Online Store

Business Wire, Dec 3, 2001

Business Editors & Hi-Tech Writers

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & MILL VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2001

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) and DiamondSoft, Inc., announced today that Bitstream will resell DiamondSoft's Font Reserve, the highly acclaimed font manager for the Macintosh and for Windows. Font Reserve is created by DiamondSoft, in which Bitstream holds a minority interest.

Bitstream will offer Font Reserve on its online store, store.bitstream.com, as well as through its network of worldwide resellers.

Bitstream is replacing Font Navigator, its font manager for Windows, with Font Reserve for Windows. Bitstream is discontinuing Font Navigator, but will offer upgrades for Font Reserve for Windows to current users who have Font Navigator version 3.01. Besides the Windows version, Bitstream will also offer Font Reserve for the Macintosh.

The award-winning Font Reserve is a feature-rich and powerful tool for managing and using fonts. You can quickly activate, preview, sort, and copy the correct fonts without guesswork or hassles. Now, with version 2.6, you can even download the fonts you need directly from the Internet through the MyFonts.com Web site (www.myfonts.com). When accessed through Font Reserve, MyFonts.com provides one-stop shopping and allows users to download fonts directly into their Font Reserve databases.

"DiamondSoft's Font Reserve for the Macintosh has consistently won all the awards for the best font manager on the market," said Charles Ying, CEO of Bitstream. "Now DiamondSoft has brought all that expertise to Font Reserve for Windows. Representing a new wave in font management, Font Reserve makes it easy for designers and publishers to deal with large numbers or fonts. We are very pleased to have worked with DiamondSoft in bringing Font Reserve to Bitstream's customers."

"As the developer of the most technologically advanced font manager, it's natural that we would partner with a font manufacturer as innovative as Bitstream," says Brian Berson, President and Founder of DiamondSoft. "Our link to MyFonts.com and the advent of reselling Font Reserve through Bitstream's online store extends our existing partnership and provides added benefits to all of our customers."

About Bitstream

Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R) and Font Fusion(TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream is currently developing ThunderHawk(TM), a breakthrough technology for the wireless Web.

Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com.

About DiamondSoft, Inc.

DiamondSoft, Inc., based in Mill Valley, California, was founded in 1995 to solve the font management problems of the publishing industry. Its mission is to provide software tools that enable professionals to focus on the creative aspects of their jobs, letting the computer handle the mundane and laborious aspects.

For more information about DiamondSoft, e-mail info@diamondsoft.com or visit us at www.fontreserve.com.

Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and ThunderHawk are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.