Bitstream Releases Panorama 5.5 and Font Fusion 5.5

Upgrade Offers Performance Optimizations and Enhanced Rendering Effects For Global Text Composition

Marlborough, MA, – January 19, 2010 —Bitstream Inc. (www.bitstream.com, NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the release of version 5.5 of Bitstream Panorama™, the worldwide text composition engine that enables developers to compose and render text in any international language.

This upgrade includes several new layout capabilities APIs, filters and text effects. Bitstream Panorama is a global text composition engine that enables developers and OEMs to layout, position, substitute and render characters in all of the world’s languages via a single compact API. Unlike Latin-based languages, Eastern scripts such as Thai, Arabic, Devanagari and Hebrew require complex considerations to compose blocks of text. Bitstream Panorama seamlessly handles this task, in a fast compact package.

In addition, Bitstream announced the release of Font Fusion 5.5, also featuring new APIs, performance enhancements and filters, as well as enhanced access to TrueType tables. These upgrades and optimizations are designed to extend the functionality of the company's premier font subsystem that renders high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device.

Bitstream Panorama 5.5 includes several significant new features including:

• Support for enhanced layout. Avoid Rects enable developers to flow text around graphics or images.
• The addition of variable thickness to the Outline Filter.Upgrades in shaping, dynamic editing and alpha rendering.
• Additional Glow Filter support.
• Enhanced performance for non-ram fonts.

Bitstream Font Fusion provides the highest quality, fastest text output on any device, at any resolution. Its small footprint is particularly well suited for mobile devices. t is also used in operating systems, software applications, low-resolution screen devices, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other embedded systems.  It can render virtually any font format, including bitmap, TrueType and OpenType.

Font Fusion 5.5 includes several new features including:

• Enhancements and improved performance of outline Bold Filter.
• Font Manager enhancements allowing for better control of font streams.
• Additional control features for Outline and Border Filters.
• Enhanced access to TrueType tables.

Bitstream Panorama and Font Fusion 5.5 enable global developers and OEMs to output text in all of the world's languages via a single compact API, said Anna Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream. This release will seamlessly allow them to localize their products anywhere in the world while offering the fastest, most visually-compelling text rendering available to resource-constrained systems with limited memory and screen resolution."