Bitstream Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., on Monday released Font Fusion 3.0, the company's font rasterizing engine with newly added built-in support for font compression.

According to the company, Bitstream's engine can read and render fonts at more than a 2-1 compression ratio, depending on the font format.

On the compression quality, Sampo Kaasila, vice president of research and development for Bitstream, said, "Note that this is a 'lossless' compression, which means there is no degradation in quality of the character output."

The Font Fusion 3.0 release also features improved LCD display output, added more support for multibit-per-pixel bitmaps and improved the Bitstream Panorama global text composition engine, the company said.

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On Monday, San Francisco, Calif.-based SolidWorks Corp. announced Tiger compatibility for its eDrawings software program, with the release of eDrawings for Mac OS X Version 10.4.

eDrawings is a tool that enables review and annotative comment-sharing on design files and models generated by engineers and graphic specialists communicating and collaborating through e-mail.

eDrawings for Mac OS X Viewer is free. A license of eDrawings Professional for Mac OS X is priced at $995.

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On Tuesday, San Diego, Calif.-based Iomega Corp. announced a joint partnership agreement with Paris-based Thomson's digital media solutions subsidiary Grass Valley.

The companies said the agreement will integrate Iomega's REV removable hard drive with several of Thomson's Grass Valley new audio and video products.

The first Grass Valley product featuring Iomega's REV built-in drive is the Grass Valley Turbo iDDR (intelligent digital disk recorder), which the company announced in May.

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