Fonts Take Flight
Bitstream, creators of TrueDoc font technology, recently announced a new font engine, JET (Java-based Extendible Type), which provides a complete font-display system for Java programs. Without using native methods or extension APIs, JET enables Java programs to display any font in any language, with any character-set encoding.
JET is an object-oriented architecture written entirely in Java. By encapsulating the font description in an object, JET is capable of handling any font format, including TrueType, PostScript Type 1, and the proposed OpenType format. Imaging filters and transformations can be plugged into the glyph-generation process, providing superior control and effects.
Until recently, the display of text on the Internet has been a major stumbling block for Web designers and authors. Limited to a few typefaces, designers never knew whether users really saw Web pages as intended. However, Bitstream's TrueDoc font technology allows true viewing of fonts across various applications, platforms, and operating systems. TrueDoc maintains the original quality of fonts on a wide variety of screens and printers.
TrueDoc eliminates the need to deal with image files or portable documents, which create large, cumbersome-to-download files. Among the disadvantages of these techniques are the loss of HTML properties (the ability to search for key words) and the discrepancies in appearance in viewers' browsers.
