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What Is Bitstream Cyberbit? 
 
Cyberbit is Bitstream's international font. Based on one of our most
popular and 
readable type designs (Zurich BT), it includes all the typographic
characters for 
most of the world's major languages. Beginning in Q2 of 1996,
Bitstream will 
distribute the roman weight free of charge. Its first release will be
in TrueType 
format for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Future releases will provide
support for 
other platforms, other font formats, and even more languages.  
 
Why Do We Need Cyberbit? 
 
People all over the world have their own language-specific versions of
Windows 
(or other operating systems) that provide them with the font support
they need to 
write, view, and print their own languages. Problems arise when
someone wants 
to send you a document or to create a home page for you to view. The
other 
person doesn't have access to all the characters she or he needs to
make it 
readable for the rest of the world; and you don't have the characters
you need to 
view her or his language.  
 
The solution: one font with the languages already in it! Enter
Cyberbit. If authors 
create their documents using Cyberbit, and viewers all have it on
their systems, 
everyone can view and print multilingual documents exactly as they
were created. 
The "World Wide" Web will finally be worldwide!  
 
What Languages Does Cyberbit Support? 
 
The initial release of Cyberbit will include all the characters needed
to support the 
major languages of North and South America; Eastern, Central, and
Western 
Europe; Scandinavia; Russia; Greece; Turkey; Thailand; India; and
Japan. Future 
releases of Cyberbit will add support for Chinese, Korean, and other
languages.  
 
Cyberbit complies fully with Unicode 1.1, which means it supports
Windows NT 
and all the code pages in Windows 95. In addition, Cyberbit contains
full 
PANOSE support. Most importantly, its most popular text size has been
"delta-
hinted," which means Bitstream designers have fine tuned it for
optimum screen 
quality and readability. Note that to view double-byte languages such
as Kanji 
(Japanese), you need to use a double-byte enabled browser or
application.  
 
Pricing and Availability 
 
Bitstream will distribute Cyberbit free--beginning in the 
second quarter of 1996.  
 
 
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 
 
 
 
Cyberbit Character Set Support 
 
ASCII, ANSI, Latin 1, Latin 2, Latin 5, Latin 6, European Latin,
Extended Latin, 
General Punctuation, General Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators,
Box 
Drawing, Superscripts and Subscripts, Currency, Letterlike Symbols,
Number 
Forms, Blocks, Geometric Shapes, Cyrillic, Basic Greek, Basic Hebrew, 
Extended Hebrew, Miscellaneous Technical, Miscellaneous Symbols,
Alphabetic 
Presentation Forms, Thai, Devanagari, Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji
(double-
byte Japanese).  
 
Number of Characters 
 
Cyberbit, in its first release, will include over 8500 characters. 
 
Bitstream Inc., 215 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 
Worldwide phone number: 617-497-6222 
Phone number in the U.S. and Canada: 800-522-3668 
Phone number in Europe: +31 20 5200 300 
E-mail address: in...@bitstream.com 
 
 
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