BroadVision Licenses Font Rendering Technology and Fonts from Bitstream

Business Wire, May 7, 2002

Business/Technology Editors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2002

BroadVision standardizes on Bitstream's high-quality character

generation and printing solution for its Enterprise Business Portal

software

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that BroadVision, Inc. has licensed Bitstream's font rendering technology and complementary fonts to enhance its Enterprise Business Portal products. BroadVision selected Bitstream's solution for its ability to accelerate the engineering design process and time to market, as well as to generate and print high-quality characters.

BroadVision is using Bitstream technology in BroadVision(R) QuickSilver(TM), a full-featured software package for creating and publishing long, complex documents in multiple output formats (including HTML, PDF, Postscript and ASCII) across different platforms and networks. QuickSilver delivers publishing, word processing, and Web publishing for long, complex, multi-language documents in one easy-to-use package. It also includes an extensive array of tools to help users migrate their complex document applications to the open XML standard.

"BroadVision is an international leader in Enterprise Business Portals," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "An important part of the publishing function within Portals is enabling users to create and print multi-lingual documents using high-quality, international fonts. We are very pleased that BroadVision selected Bitstream's fast, system-independent, font rendering technology for its sophisticated publishing software."

"BroadVision's QuickSilver publishing system is enriched by Bitstream's high quality fonts and rendering engine," said Bill Zujewski, Vice President of Product Marketing.

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 full-featured browser 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.

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.