Bitstreams Releases Latest edition of its Font Technology

April 30th, 2012

Bitstream Inc. today announced the newest upgrade to the company’s font technology, Bitstream Panorama and Bitstream Font Fusion. Bitstream Panorama is the worldwide text composition engine that enables developers to compile and render text in any language. Bitstream’s Font Fusion is a text rendering solution that offers developers the fastest rendering speeds and best probable text output of any font engine on the market today.

Bitstream Panorama 7.0

Panorama is currently available as a plug-in for iOS and Android operating systems. The plug-in allows access to features akin to better layout control, complex script sustain not supported by the base system, and support for non-TTF font formats. Panorama 7.0 also includes a scaling aspect which allows users to execute a pinching effect on rendered text, making this kind of layout faster.

Panorama 7.0 Supports:

  • Sinhala and Tibetan Script – The Sinhala script is used mostly in Sri Lanka, while the Tibetan script is used in Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and northern parts of India.
  • Native OTF is sustained in Panorama 7.0. This superior feature provides the option to apply OTF features like superscript, subscript, fractions, scientific inferiors, etc. even if the font does not sustain them.
  • Improved performance using OTFP coverage data by using embedded preprocessed data directly within the fonts.
  • Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) through open type fonts (OTF).
  • Dynamic Font Array which allows every number of fonts at run time.

Bitstream Font Fusion 7.0

Bitstream’s Font Fusion provides the premier quality, fastest text output on any device, at any resolution. Its small footprint is predominantly well suited for mobile devices. It can render almost any font format, including bitmap, TrueType and Open Type.

Font Fusion 7.0 Includes:

  • Support for optical axis of Multiple Master (MM) fonts and the addition of a new API that works on the real rendered width of a device.
  • A new feature called Render Path that enables passing of lane data to Font Fusion. Font Fusion will then render the lane and return a bitmap shield.
  • Smart Scale scales taller accented characters to not exceed the standard capital letter height. This new feature in Font Fusion 7.0 allows the real height limit to be individual.
  • Support for the Standard Encoded Accented Character (SEAC) command that allows the font to identify the base character and the accent character and offset in a single “end char” command.
  • The addition of new filters, counting a trim filter that removes all the blank lines from the rendered glyph and updates glyph metrics consequently.
  • Numerous enhancements to the Font Manager, including Unicode mapping which provides an easy way to identify different fonts for different Unicode ranges.
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Inspiration into Exclusive Picture Fonts

April 27th, 2012

Kapitza is a multi-disciplinary design studio in East London run by Sisters Nicole and Petra Kapitza who share an excitement for print, pattern, nature, minimalism and colour.  The sisters draw inspiration from nature, people and software, and have developed extensive series of unique picture fonts and illustrations that lie somewhere between image source and art project.

Tape font - Kapitza

We’ve been following your work for a while now; can you explain what your company does?

We work across a choice of media, including non-alphanumeric fonts, iPad apps and three-dimensional work. We also join forces with a variety of international clients to generate exhibitions and products featuring their characteristic artworks, such as stationery, canvasses, calendars, wall stickers and tiles, textiles and postage stamps.

Wave font - Kapitza

Aren’t fonts imaginary to be letters? How do designers exploit your work?

Most fonts are of course letters, but printer’s ornaments have been around since portable type printing commenced in the 15th century. And the nonstop possibilities of the font design keep inspiring us to create new fonts and projects based around them. Designers use our work similar to they would use other vector images. The benefit of using one of our fonts is that the designer gets a whole set of images which are intended to work together and complement each other.

Orbit Font - Kapitza

Can you talk on the iPad app? What is it for?

Our iPad and iPhone app Geometric is a prototype creator app which creates a new pattern when you swipe the screen. The patterns are all unique and generated on the fly using our Geometric fonts and other parameters akin to color palettes, sequences and sizes.

Geometric Fonts

We are presently working on version 1.1 which will allow the user to ‘lock’ any of these parameters, to have more control over the patterns which are formed. The app is for all creative’s and pattern lovers; it works as a source of motivation and a tool to generate backgrounds and wallpapers.

 

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Font Management Apps: Suitcase Fusion 4

April 25th, 2012

We know designers who preoccupy about fonts the same way others consume over old vinyl records. Frequently reorganizing their collections, searching through their back catalogue and adding new acquisitions. OS X’s font management tools are simply insufficient for the task.

Suitcase Fusion is the implement of option. In version 4 there’s a new UI designed to shorten the round-trip between font manager and the countless applications designers’ use, so it’s an important upgrade.

Category                    : Utilities
Developer                  : Extensis
Compatibility             : Mac OS X v10.5.8 or later
Age Rating                 : 4+
Price                          : US$131 (Full); US$65.50 (Upgrade)

Top of the new element list is combination with Adobe Creative Suite. Designers can preview organize and activate fonts straight within Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design. Working on a design project in CS? Download the new font, see how it looks and install it lacking leaving the document window.

The feature supports CS tools from version 3 through to 5.5 – with support for CS6 set to come as a free improve just as soon as Extensis have bashed away the bugs. Quark users aren’t left in the cold also, with plug-in sustain for Quark Xpress 7, 8 and 9.

Adobe’s print workflow tool In Copy is catered for too, with the built in creation plug-in updated to make new fonts instantly accessible.

Suitcase Fusion’s best known for its association tools and these have had a muscular boost. Font favorites let you pick star fonts from your collection, so your fallback faces are always easily available. You can also generate and curate your own custom font lists, for collections of typefaces that fit a job or thesis.

And talking about picking fonts for the job, the preview window enables you to see fonts with your choice of text – headline, logo, and strap – anything you need. Take it a step added and you can even try fonts out with the built in colour picker, with a bespoke background.

One of our own favorite features is Google web Font combination. This online collection of free faces is designed for use in web pages, but includes many fonts that are just as suitable to print and digital publishing projects; there are hundreds to choose from. This element increases web font support introduced formerly through webink.

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Google Docs blow up among New Fonts

April 23rd, 2012

The developers behind Google Docs have offered their latest update to their web-based environment for document editing: fonts galore! This update will allow web fonts in Google documents, one whole heck of a lot of them, each of them working to allow you wonderful looks for your documents both online and offline in print form. There are over 450 fonts presented in Google docs at present, with extra features coming up quick!

Google Docs explodes with new fonts

To modernize your Google Docs environment, you’ll have to click your FONT menu and select ADD FONTS. From there you’ll be capable to pick from a number of Google Web Fonts available. You can add the fonts you’d like to use several times to your everyday font menu if you like, all 450 of them!

In addition to fonts, there are numerous features Google has added to Docs to entice you to stick around in the blur for the time being. First there are several new options for including images in your Docs. You can now put in images into your Docs via Google Drive, by searching in the LIFE Photo archive, or by taking a photo with your webcam – expansion!

Google Doc explodes with new fonts and Templates

 The following trappings have also been prepared to Google Docs:

  • Accessibility in Docs got better with sustain for screen readers in presentations and with the count of NVDA to our list of supported screen readers.
  • From File > Page setup… you can now set the evade page size for your new documents.
  • It’s now easier for speakers of right-to-left languages by automatically showing bidirectional controls when you type in a language that may use them.
  • Apps Script had several improvements, including
  • A new Script Service for programmatically publishing your scripts and scheming when they run.
  • A new task to find the root folder of someone’s Drive.
  • An enlarge in the acceptable attachment size in emails from 5MB to 25MB.
  • An enlarge in the size of doc’s files you can generate from 2MB to 50MB.
  • There are currently over 60 new templates in our template gallery.
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