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Bitstreams Releases Latest edition of its Font Technology

Monday, 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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Google Docs blow up among New Fonts

Monday, 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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National Geographic Gets New System to Direct Its 10,000 Fonts

Friday, April 20th, 2012

National Geographic Society has called on Extensis’ Universal Type Server to manage its records of over 10,000 fonts. Distributing fonts and maintaining licensing control is an essential effort when considering the size of National Geographic’s library and the number of its publications.

Extensis, a provider of font management and digital asset managing software, has already collaborated with many other major publishers as well as Conde Nast and Future Publishing. Vice president of publishing scheme for National Geographic Dave E. Smith describes Extensis’ system as more robust than the before system.

To elaborate, the Universal Type Server will now allow National Geographic to classify, package and distribute the appropriate fonts to the creative directors who need them. Additionally, the system will allow easier right to use to control, track or relocate fonts as necessary. Smith stresses, it’s crucial that we fulfill with font license terms without hindering manufacture work. Universal Type Server allows us to manage font allocation and use across our organization while delegating some control and freedom to our publishing groups.

Smith also suggests that the company’s new system will be most useful for the book-publishing group, because they typically rely on a large number of fonts to produce a variety of book titles. However, the system is a welcome addition across all groups for the reason that Smith says that the fonts are part of our brand, they are tied together.

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A New Serif: The Fonts used on London’s signs and shops have an army of fans

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Antony Harrington is passionate with type. It is partly the job of doing well fonts to be invisible and as such they are usually overlooked. Johnston Sans, as it occur, is the font of London Underground. Harrington wants everybody to know this and is inviting fellow enthusiasts to draw a typographic map of the capital. He wants to use contemporary technology to record great or endangered examples of lettering to show the unique and quiet way the words around us can help shape the identity of a place and how we feel about it.

Trajan Style Typeface

I meet Harrington, a partner at a branding and design company in north London, outside the Covent Garden Tube station, where lunchtime shoppers steer a course about two men behaving strangely. We are doing what few Londoners ever do, looking up to admire the Underground’s unambiguous roundel sign, as well as the more ornate typeface used on the station’s façade. After a little minutes I reach for my phone, starts the app Harrington has devised and takes a photo. I write a caption and upload the image to the London Typographic website, where it is added to a map of the city now spotted with examples of type.

Harrington admits to being a font geek, but says there’s a motive we should all look with fresh eyes at the words in our own towns and cities. Typefaces work well as tiny milestones. They anchor a building to a time and a function, whether it’s profitable or social, and this is a heritage worth preserving.

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