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The source for the best font engine and font rasterizer technology!What is Font Fusion ?
It is a modern high quality easy to use font engine software
component that provides high-quality text rendering suitable for virtually
anything from the smallest wireless Internet devices and embedded systems to the largest
multi-threaded systems.
The Font Fusion font engine is independent of processor and OS and compatible
with all industry standard font formats.
It is a full featured lean, mean and fast next generation
small-footprint multilingual scaleable outline font technology.
Font Fusion was designed for both gray-scale and black and white,
ROM and non-ROM, based devices where the fonts may reside locally or remotely.
Font Fusion Font Engine
Font Fusion provides a technologically superior solution due to its object oriented design, advanced algorithms, and its clean API resulting in maximum reliability, performance, and easy integration.See here for recent Bitstream press releases.
Font Fusion White Paper.
Font Fusion FAQ.
See Arial.
See Arial Italic.
See Times New Roman.
See Times New Roman Italic.
See Palatino.
See Palatino Italic.
See Zurich.
See Gothic Kanji.
See Mincho Kanji.
See colored bordering
See a Spiral.
Contact information.
Bitstream typeface library
Why is Font Fusion the best font engine ?
A font engine can be described in terms of speed, code-size, font-size, and quality. Font Fusion is excellent on all four fronts.| Speed: (266 Mhz G3 PPC) | 28,000 antialiased grayscale bitmaps/second in TV-mode, 18,800 hinted monochrome bitmaps/second using native TrueType hints, |
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| Speed: (60 Mhz Pentium) | 3,349 antialiased grayscale bitmaps/second in TV-mode, 2,414 hinted monochrome bitmaps/second using native TrueType hints, |
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| Code-size: | A bare-bones Font Fusion engine with antialiasing capability can fit in below 32 Kbytes of
ROM on a RISC machine and even less on CISC machine! |
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| Font-size: | 13,854 character Unicode stroke font fits in 471 Kbytes!!!, 7800+ character outline Kanji font fits in below one megabyte. The compression is loss-less and the compressed font is directly rasterized by Font Fusion without a need for decompressing the data into RAM. |
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| Quality: | Excellent quality with native TrueType hint support and through its sophisticated antialiasing scan conversion and unique run-time hinting/gridding technology and options for both TV as well as color LCD optimized output. |
What font formats does Font Fusion support ?
Font Fusion supports TrueType, TrueType collections, Type 1, CFF/Type 2, extremely compact Font Fusion stroke fonts, PFR, PCLeo, PCLetto, Speedo, Roman T2K, and Asian CJK T2K fonts. Font Fusion also supports embedded bitmaps in FFS, T2K, PFR, and TrueType formats.Any more reasons I should consider licensing Font Fusion for use in my product ?
Yes, Font Fusion's low code sizes, incredible performance statistics, multi-format support, unified stream/memory management, object orientation and the internal architectural elegance, makes Font Fusion the best choice. Excellent multilingual support with both horizonal and vertical metrics. Also contains direct support for TV screens and video, options for color LCD screens, native TrueType hint support, an optional font manager with dynamic font fragment support, an optional bitmap cache, and optional stroke font support. Font Fusion's superior qualities and its continued path of technological excellence into the future makes it the best choice. Additionally you can license digital typefaces from the Bitstream typeface library for a complete turn key package. The ability to display and output high-quality characters for CJK languages from the ultra compact Font Fusion stroke font format enables developers of Internet appliances, wireless Internet devices, and other embedded systems to address new business opportunities for their products without the barriers imposed by the large size of conventional Asian fonts.How portable is Font Fusion ?
Very. The Font Fusion font rasterizer is robustly architected in an object oriented manner to achieve platform and OS independence in industry standard ANSI C, allowing it to run on virtually any platform and device. The source is little/big endian neutral and independent of compiler structure alignments.Recent Highlights
| April 8, 2003 | Font Fusion 2.4 is released with enhanced support for Adobe OpenType fonts and enhanced support for Type 1 fonts. |
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| April 2, 2002 | Font Fusion 2.3 is released. It includes Support for Adobe OpenType fonts, and support for FCC edge effects standards for closed captioning. The release also includes an optional new CCTV font set. |
| January 29, 2002 | Font Fusion 2.2 is released. Simultaneously, Bitstream released the Wireless Font Set which is made up of high-quality fonts that render well at small point sizes on any display. The fonts are designed specifically for handheld and wireless devices since they maximize the amount of readable text that can be used on a small display. |
| June 12, 2001 | Font Fusion 2.1, the fastest font engine on the market, is released. Font Fusion 2.1 incorporates many new features, and this release solidifies Font Fusion as the leading font rendering technology for information appliances, wireless devices, set-top boxes, and other embedded systems. Release also includes an optional 1.23 MB, unified stroke-based font with over 37,000 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters, a new addition to the ultra-compact, stroke-based font technology. |
| July 18, 2000 | Font Fusion 2.0 is released. Bitstream Inc. Adds Japanese and Korean stroke based fonts. New features incude: Stroke based fonts now render 3 times faster at low sizes. Sharper, faster output on LCD displays. Faster font initialization. Support for Bitstream's Speedo format. Support for native hints for Type 1, TrueDoc PFR, and stroke based fonts. |
| February 24, 2000 | Font Fusion 1.1 is released. Bitstream Inc. Adds Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Ultra-compact, Stroke-based Fonts to Font Fusion. New features incude: Improved font technology for low-resolution monochrome devices, such as wireless Internet devices, PDAs, and other embedded systems and Internet appliances. Support for stroke based proportional-width characters. Improved support for printer technologies, including PCLeo and PCLetto font support. Support for large character set and unencoded CFF/Type 2 fonts. |
| October 22, 1999 | Font Fusion 1.0 is released. This is the result of the fusion of T2K and Bitstream font technologies. In addition to all the "old" T2K features Font Fusion also includes support for the PFR font format, a lightning fast bitmap cache, a font manager with dynamic font fragment support, and support for the new extremely compact Font Fusion stroke font format. We have a Traditional Chinese font in this format with 13,854 characters and it fits into 471 Kbytes of storage!!! This means we have both the worlds fastest font engine and the worlds smallest font! |
| March 31, 1999 | A T2K was released with an option for direct support of color LCD screens, as well as a new colored antialiased bordering capability, and enhanced TV support. You can see a demo by clicking on the font names in the left column of this page! |
| February 26, 1999 | A new version of T2K was released. T2K is now over 4 times faster than previous versions. It is probably the worlds fastest font engine! The extreme 28,888 antialiased bitmaps per second speed at 12 ppem is equivalent to 108.6 characters per CPU MegaHertz!!! |
| January 21, 1999 | Direct support for native TrueType hints added. This means better looking type. |
| Dec. 2, 1998 | T2K gained the full support and backing of Bitstream Inc. The Internet Font Technology Company. |
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