Bitstream has announced the release of Font Fusion 3.1, the advanced font rasterizing engine.

Font Fusion now includes an upgraded cache management system. The cache can be dynamically increased or decreased at run time, and characters in the cache can be compressed, saving memory. In addition, the new release includes support for 64-bit pointers, support for use of multiple filters simultaneously (such as underline and strikethrough), support for transformations (such as rotating and obliquing) of bitmap-only fonts, and support for multi-color fonts (including emoticons and multi-color icons).

“This release builds upon our last major release of Font Fusion. We have extended our font compression to the cache manager, but more importantly have optimized the cache management system. This will benefit applications running on devices with memory and performance constraints,” said Anna Chagnon, President and CEO of Bitstream. “Font Fusion has been built for small embedded systems such as consumer electronics devices and mobile phones. It remains the font rendering engine of choice for international developers who need a small, fast font engine capable of displaying high-quality text.”