Panorama is a line layout and text composition engine to render text in various worldwide languages made by

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Panorama uses

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as the base to support rendering of the text. The engine allows the user to manage different text formatting aspects like spacing, alignment, style effects (bold, embossed, outline,

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s etc.). Panorama provides support for

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font tables leading to automatic character substitution for

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, scientific figures, etc. Panorama supports three anti-aliasing modes

monochrome A monochrome or monochromatic image, object or palette is composed of one color (or values of one color). Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale (typically digital) or black-and-white (typically analog). In physics, monochr ...

grayscale In digital photography, computer-generated imagery, and colorimetry, a grayscale image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an ''amount'' of light; that is, it carries only intensity information. Graysc ...

, and LCD optimized (Horizontal and Vertical).

Version history

Panorama has undergone several changes since its initial release as well as numerous additions of APIs to the core engine.

Features

* Support for Thai shaping and OpenType rules. * Enhanced support for the Unicode line breaking algorithm. * Better support for TV screens. * Enhanced font weight management and formatting support with font ratio, shadow width and shadow color. * Unicode Compliance Full layout support for Unicode 5.0 and all international languages including complex scripting languages, such as Arabic, Indic, and Thai. * Supports bi-directional algorithms required to rearrange characters sequentially. For example in languages such as

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, and

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
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the characters may be entered on a keyboard in one way, but need to be rendered in a correct way on a visual device. * Contextual Shaping Applies contextual shaping to the characters, i.e., the characters are substituted, combined, or repositioned depending on the rules of the language. * Composes text in all worldwide languages, which includes various complex scripting languages such as, Arabic, Indic, and Hebrew. * Supports key

tables required for line layout such as, BASE, glyph definition (GDEF), glyph positioning (GPOS), and glyph substitution (GSUB). * Supports

kerning In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the space between individual letterforms, while tracking (letter-spacing ...

information in OpenType fonts. * Text on Path Enables text rendering along a path, outline, or a predefined shape. * Font Mapping Supports script-based font mapping enabling the application to support multiple scripts at a single instance. * Style Mapping Allows grouping of style-linked fonts to be treated as a single font. The engine "knows" to access a font’s own true-drawn style when you apply styles from the style menu. * Unicode Mapping Supports automatic font switching based on the Unicode values of the text stream to be rendered. * Unicode-Image Mapping Enables the developers to map a Unicode sequence to any image. * Paragraph Styling Supports paragraph-specific formatting attributes including text alignment, letter/line spacing, and indentation functions. * Termination style Facilitates the application to include an ellipses kind of termination style for the truncated text if the string does not fits inside the designated area. * Inline Images Supports floating graphic object types that are inline with the text. * Rich-text Editing features, such as space wrap, tab stops, and dynamic property changes for inter-character space, line indents, and line gaps. * Supports industry-standard color formats, including monochrome, RGB, and BGR, with alpha channel support.

Font Formats Supported

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* WOFF fonts * Type 1 *

TrueType TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating ...

* TrueType collections *

* Compact font format (CFF)/Type 2 * TrueDoc

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s (PFRs) * Bitstream Speedo * T2K * Font Fusion Stroke (FFS) * Embedded bitmaps (TrueType, TrueDoc, and T2K) * Windows bitmap font format FNT/FON * Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) * Mac font suitcase (Dfont)

Character Sets Supported

Color Formats Supported

* Supports monochrome and grayscale format. * Supports industry-standard screen color formats including monochrome, RGB, and BGR. * Supports eight different pixel depths for R, G, B, and alpha channel in RGB or BGR format.

Text Style and Effects

* Embossed *

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* Left and right drop shadows * Algorithmic obliquing * Algorithmic emboldening *

Underline An underscore, ; also called an underline, low line, or low dash; is a line drawn under a segment of text. In proofreading, underscoring is a convention that says "set this text in italic type", traditionally used on manuscript or typescript as ...

Overline An overline, overscore, or overbar, is a typographical feature of a horizontal line drawn immediately above the text. In old mathematical notation, an overline was called a '' vinculum'', a notation for grouping symbols which is expressed in m ...

Strikethrough Strikethrough is a typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through their center, resulting in . Contrary to censored or sanitized (redacted) texts, the words remain readable. This presentation signifies one of two meanings. ...

(Single/Double/Dotted line) * Outlines * Colored border text styles *

Superscript A subscript or superscript is a character (such as a number or letter) that is set slightly below or above the normal line of type, respectively. It is usually smaller than the rest of the text. Subscripts appear at or below the baseline, whil ...

Subscript A subscript or superscript is a character (such as a number or letter) that is set slightly below or above the normal line of type, respectively. It is usually smaller than the rest of the text. Subscripts appear at or below the baseline, whil ...

* Flicker filter * User defined filter

Applications/Operating Systems Supported

* Cross-platform applications *

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) applications *

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and

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* BREW *

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and

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* Real time operating systems

Devices Supported

Consumer Electronic Devices, Mobile Handset, Set-top box, Digital TV, Printer, Medical Imaging Device, GPS System, Automobile Display, and other Embedded System

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Line layout engine for worldwide text layout, multilanguage, multilingual fonts, and international complex scripts

BITSTREAM INC 10-K, BITSTREAM INC Annual Report
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