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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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Font Management Apps: Suitcase Fusion 4

Wednesday, 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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Two New Fonts as of FiZZZ BZZZZ

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Paris-based studio FiZZZ BZZZZ clearly has fun when it comes to naming things, like their own perform or, in this case, their two newest fonts Antique De Profundis and Animal Grotesk.

Antique De Profundis

Google translates Antique De Profundis as “Antique of the Depths,” which is perhaps why they showcase the typeface over an image of a graveyard, but I honestly think they needed a nice word with both a Q and an E to show off their curled descenders and bars. This rounded motif is obvious in the leg of the R and the overly plump S as well. It has celebrity. I know I’m attainment here, but doesn’t the F remind you of Sam the Eagle?

Animal Grotesk

FiZZZ BZZZZ describes their second typeface, Animal Grotesk, as cleanly “childish,” but they visibly left out totally adorable. I’m not sure how efficient it is, but who cares? It works for titles and as standalone letter forms, and besides, this was clearly as much fun to design as it is for me to ogle at online while in secret wishing I knew a six-year-old so I could make him a sign for his bedroom door.

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Arabic Typeface Catches the Think of designers

Monday, March 26th, 2012

Efforts being complete to reaffirm Arab identity at corporate level Dubai: There isn’t enough Arabic typefaces, said typographer Tarek Atrissi. It wasn’t so much an inspection as it was a declaration. One that obviously shouts out there is high demand for Arabic fonts, less supply.

Type designers Tarek Attrisi and Nadine Chahine speak about The Modern Arabic typeface in a workshop with students at the Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba, and Dubai.

This fact is without help encouraging type designers and graphic design students in the Middle East to do something about it. That something was clear from Atrissi’s current workshop titled Arabesque, Identity and Arabic Typography, organized by Nuqat Design Conference 2012, where students were sketching forms of Arabic lettering.

There is an explosion in branding. For exclusive branding – whether it is signage or a logo – you need an exclusive typographic voice. Companies are pointed for unique typefaces. Companies are trying to repeat the Arab identity on a corporate level.

The co-host of the workshop, type designer Nadine Chahine, added: “Companies in the Gulf have extra budgets for branding. Given that typeface is an essential ingredient, there is new interest in Arabic type. Now some of these students at the workshop may be able to expand the letters they have sketched keen on a system and further extend it into a font.”

Chahine works at Linotype, Germany, a global contributor of superior quality typographic products and services. She has more than 18 fonts to her glory with the best-selling Frutiger Arabic and Koufiya.

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