Bitstream Releases Font Fusion 3.1, the Leading Font Rendering Solution for Small Embedded Systems; New Release Optimizes Caching for Memory-Constrained Consumer Devices and Mobile Phones

Business Wire, Nov 3, 2005

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the release of Font Fusion(R) 3.1, the company's smallest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, and the fastest font engine on the market today.

Font Fusion now includes an upgraded cache management system. The cache can be dynamically increased or decreased at run time, and characters in the cache can be compressed, saving memory. In addition, the new release includes support for 64-bit pointers, support for use of multiple filters simultaneously (such as underline and strikethrough), support for transformations (such as rotating and obliquing) of bitmap-only fonts, and support for multi-color fonts (including emoticons and multi-color icons).

"This release builds upon our last major release of Font Fusion. We have extended our font compression to the cache manager, but more importantly have optimized the cache management system. This will benefit applications running on devices with memory and performance constraints," said Anna Chagnon, President and CEO of Bitstream. "Font Fusion has been built for small embedded systems such as consumer electronics devices and mobile phones. It remains the font rendering engine of choice for international developers who need a small, fast font engine capable of displaying high-quality text."

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.

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(R) Latin, T2K Asian, TrueDoc(R) PFR (portable font resource), Bitstream Speedo(R), Font Fusion stroke (FFS), BDF (bitmap distribution format) format, as well as embedded bitmaps. Developers can also license a number of different suites of 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.