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  • Bijective BWT (6 Comments)

    David Scott has written a bijective BWT transform, which brings all the advantages of bijectiveness to BWT based compressors. Among other things, making BWT more suitable for compression-before-encryption and also give (slightly) better compression.

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  • China’s AVS Specifications Available (2 Comments)

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ISO to Review OpenType as Font Standard for MPEG-4

Posted by Sachin Garg on 17th August 2005 | Permanent Link

The standardization of OpenType has application beyond MPEG but the press releases focus on that area…

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that the International Standards Organization (ISO) accepted, for review, Adobe and Microsoft’s proposal to use the OpenType® font file format as the basis of a new open font format for handling text and graphics, within the MPEG-4 standard. Developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft, OpenType is a cross-platform font file format, which provides rich multilingual support and advanced typographic control. Already Adobe has converted the entire Adobe Type Library into this format and today offers thousands of OpenType fonts. Use of OpenType fonts is supported in current Microsoft® Windows® and Apple MacOS operating systems, allowing users to choose from among thousands of fonts provided by dozens of digital font foundries.

“OpenType fonts have been embraced by creative professionals worldwide, who recognize the benefits of multilingual support and the new levels of creative control they have when delivering high-impact text for print, the Web, and a wide variety of computing and display devices,” said Digby Horner, senior vice president of Engineering Technologies at Adobe. “The ability to compress and embed beautiful resolution-independent text as part of an MPEG-4 application will expand the creative options open for everyone working with a broad range of multimedia technologies.”

“Adoption of an OpenType-based font format as an international standard opens new market opportunities for implementers of the standard both for OpenType fonts, and for the underlying rendering engines,” said Lori Brownell, General Manager of Microsoft’s Global Platform Technologies and Services. “Microsoft is pleased to be part of this open and collaborative process and looks forward to the increased availability of OpenType-based products that will meet the needs of many customers.”

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