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Bitstream and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced that Samsung has entered into a longterm, global agreement to license Font Fusion, Bitstream's next-generation font rasterizing engine. This new agreement allows Samsung to offer interactive and multimedia solutions to its worldwide customer base and in its entire product line.

Font Fusion allows Samsung to render high-quality text in browsers, electronic programming guides, and other interactive software, as well as on such hardware devices such as digital televisions and PDAs.

Samsung will incorporate Font Fusion in high-end entertainment devices, such as high-definition television (HDTV) sets, and also in personal digital assistants (PDAs) and handheld and wireless devices.

Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. Font Fusion is small and fast.

Most developers can compile the source code in 32-105 KB, depending on options. It generates more than 16,000 characters per second, using the Arial font at 25 lines per em on a 233 MHz Pentium II processor, cache turned off.

Font Fusion performs well in memory- and performance-constrained environments. For example, a complete traditional Chinese TrueType font with over 13,000 characters can occupy as much as 8 MB. With Font Fusion, the same characters occupy less than 0.5 MB, representing considerable savings in memory and disk space costs.

Font Fusion is designed for operating systems, software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia services, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other embedded systems and information and wireless appliances.

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