C-DAC: Press Kit - Press Releases - C-DAC and Bitstream Partner To Bring Indian Language Fonts to Developers

Pune,India and Cambridge,Massachusetts, U.S.A. - June 22, 2005

Well-established Indian government institution establishes long-term relationship with Bitstream

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) and C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), GIST, Pune, India, today announced an agreement to bring a wide variety of classic and contemporary Indian language fonts to developers licensing Bitstream Font Fusion®, Bitstreams premier font rendering technology, and Bitstream Panorama, a global text composition engine.

C-DAC was established in March 1988 as a Scientific Society of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. C-DAC is primarily an R & D institution involved in the design, development and deployment of advanced information technology based solutions. C-DAC is a well-established organization with eleven offices in India. GIST Group is well-known for its work in Indian languages. GIST has become synonymous with the standards for Indian language applications in IT.

It is an exhilarating experience for the GIST team at C-DAC to work with Bitstream, so that state-of-the-art solutions can be provided to worldwide customers requiring Indian language support, stated S. Ramakrishnan, Director General of C-DAC. With the increasing demand of supporting Indian languages in all applications and devices, this partnership will help C-DAC in its mission to proliferate the usage of languages and ensure that everyone gets the benefits of computerization. C-DAC looks forward to this collaboration as a fruitful and long-lasting relationship with Bitstream.
The Indian Language fonts are all OpenType typefaces that support popular Indian languages including the following scripts:

Were very pleased to work with the GIST Group at C-DAC to provide a complete solution for developers releasing their products in India, stated Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream. Its necessary for our partners to support complex scripting languages, and its significant that a well-respected Indian government institution like C-DAC can support all the popular Indian languages and scripts. We look forward to working with the GIST Group to make this new partnership a success.

Font Fusion
Font Fusion is Bitstreams premier font subsystem, rendering high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. Delivering exceptional text rendering for consumer electronics devices and mobile phones, Font Fusion is the ideal solution for small embedded systems.

Font Fusion is both small and fast. Developers can compile the source code in 36 KB on up, depending on options. It generates more than 37,000 characters per second on a 450MHz Pentium II processor, rendering a TrueType font at 25 lines per em.

Font Fusion is designed for consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, digital TVs, printers, graphics applications, and embedded systems.

Bitstream Panorama
Bitstream Panorama is an easy-to-integrate product for consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, set-top boxes, and embedded systems. A small, portable, global text composition engine, Bitstream Panorama enables developers to draw strings of characters and lay out complex lines of text. The product supports all international languages, including Arabic and Indian language scripts.

C-DAC and GIST
Established in March 1988 as a Scientific Society of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) is primarily an R & D institution involved in the design, development and deployment of advanced information technology based solutions. C-DAC is a well-established organization with eleven offices in India. GIST (Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology) Group is well-known for its work in Indian languages. For more information, please visit http://www.cdac.in and http://www.pune.cdac.in/html/gist/gistidx.asp.

Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company that makes communications compelling. Bitstream enables customers worldwide to render high-quality text, browse the Web on wireless devices, select from the largest collection of fonts online, and customize documents over the Internet. Its core competencies include font technology, browsing technology, e-commerce technology, and publishing technology. For more information, please visit Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream and Font Fusion are registered trademarks and the Bitstream logo and Bitstream Panorama are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.