Bitstream Releases Upgrade of its Signature Font Technology Solutions Panorama and...

Bitstream Releases Upgrade of its Signature Font Technology Solutions Panorama and Font Fusion

Upgrades Offer Additional Support, Better Functionality and
Enhanced Features; to be demonstrated at Embedded Systems Conference
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) a leading software development
company with core competencies in browsing, font and publishing
technologies, announced today the releases of Panorama(TM) 4.5 and
Font Fusion(R) 4.5. The Panorama upgrade includes additional support
and features for all international language fonts including Arabic,
Hebrew, Indic, and Thai scripts, traditionally the most difficult
languages to support in products. The Font Fusion upgrade extends the
functionality of the company's premier font subsystem that renders
high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any
platform or device. Panorama 4.5 and Font Fusion 4.5 will both be
demonstrated at Bitstream booth 337 at the Embedded Systems Conference
Silicon Valley 2008, April 14-18, San Jose, CA.,

"We're always listening to our customers - their increasing demand
for consumer solutions in non-English languages helped inspire these
upgrades to two of our most popular products, said Anna Chagnon,
President and CEO of Bitstream, Inc. Panorama, together with Font
Fusion, offers a fast, resource-efficient global font solution for
developers building consumer electronics devices, mobile phones,
set-top boxes, and small embedded systems. Bitstream offers developers
the technology they need to quickly and easily implement international
languages, a "must-have" in today's marketplace."

Panorama enables developers to draw strings of characters and lay
out complex lines of text, by integrating text composition,
positioning and rendering. The release of Panorama 4.5 includes
several significant new features designed to simplify this process
including:

-- Range-based font mapping for fonts based on Unicode ranges

-- Style-based font mapping intelligently picks an existing
stylized font or applies the algorithmic style. When two font
variants - regular and italic, for example - are installed, a
user selects italic, and that font is picked. But if the
italic font is not installed, Panorama enables the regular
font to be made to italic algorithmically. Alpha channel
support in LCD mode

-- 32-bit Unicode support

-- Support for enhanced text view and editing with:

-- SpaceWrap wraps any spaces that are before a character in a
new line

-- Termination style support enables the OEM to have an ellipses
kind of termination style using Panorama. This new feature
allows the OEM to terminate the string with some characters if
the string is not getting fit inside an area.

-- Support for TabStops on any platform

Font Fusion is designed to support operating systems, software
applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices,
multimedia servers, high-definition television screens (HDTVs),
set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants
(PDAs), and other embedded systems and Internet appliances. Font
Fusion 4.5 offers new features across these applications including:

-- Support for 32-bit Unicode for interpreting large font files
as CJK with extended CMAPs for 32- bit Unicode values

-- SmartScale dynamically scales extended characters such as
accents and descenders to fit within a device's preset
bounding box

-- Additional support for common windows bitmap font format
FNT/FON

-- GlowFilter text glow effect

-- Additional support for CID keyed fonts enables rendering of
CID keyed fonts

About Bitstream

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company
focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of
markets. The company's core software products include award-winning
fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and messaging
software and variable data publishing and Web-to-print software for
personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please
visit www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream Inc.
Marion Williams-Bennett, 617-520-8311
mbennett@bitstream.com
or
For Bitstream Inc.
Matter Communications
Ariane Doud, 978-499-9250 x239
ariane@matternow.com

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