Adobe Announces Acrobat 2.1 Software for Universal Electronic Publishing

Provides expanded tools to create dynamic electronic information with
enhanced Internet integration and multimedia support

Mountain View, Calif., (August 21, 1995) (Nasdaq: ADBE) -- Adobe Systems
Incorporated extended the standard for electronic publishing today,
introducing Adobe Acrobat 2.1 software with new authoring tools for
multimedia and World Wide Web publishing, as well as additional platform
support for Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 95, native Power Macintosh,
SunOS, Sun Solaris, HP-UX and Silicon Graphics IRIX systems.

Adobe also introduced Acrobat Search for CD-ROMs, a cost-effective
publishing solution that offers the Acrobat Reader with full-text search
capability, enabling publishers to create fully searchable, cross-platform
CD-ROM titles.

The Acrobat 2.1 software family of universal electronic publishing tools
simplifies the creation of electronic documents, allowing customers to use
virtually any authoring application to create information that can be
viewed, searched and printed across all major computer platforms and
printers. The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), an open,
cross-platform file format created by Acrobat software, preserves the
fidelity of electronic documents, enabling information to be distributed
in a single format across a broad range of media including the World Wide
Web, e-mail, Lotus Notes, corporate networks, CD-ROM and print-on-demand
systems.

"As corporations and commercial publishers rush to gain the advantages of
distributing information electronically, they discover they have to
support a disparate array of formats and tools that do not leverage
current business processes or investments in existing applications," said
Stephen A. MacDonald, senior vice president at Adobe Systems Incorporated.
"With Acrobat 2.1 software, our customers can use their current tools to
create information in a rich and dynamic electronic format that can be
used in many ways to reach a very wide audience."

Universal Creation and Viewing Tool

Acrobat 2.1 software expands the range of supported computer platforms to
include Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 95, and Windows 3.1, Macintosh and
native Power Macintosh, Sun OS 4.1.3 and higher, Sun Solaris 2.3 and 2.4,
HP-UX 9.0.3 and above and 10.0 family, and Silicon Graphics IRIX 5.3-5.x.

Communicating is now easier, as well as more visually captivating, with
Acrobat 2.1 software through Weblink, a plug-in application for World Wide
Web publishing, and Movie Tool, which allows multimedia elements to be
added to PDF files. Weblink lets authors embed a Universal Resource
Locator (URL) within a PDF file, allowing users to connect from an Acrobat
document to any other supported file type on the World Wide Web. Weblink
works with a users' Web browser to communicate across the Internet and is
supported by Netscape Navigator 1.1 and Spyglass Enhanced Mosaic 2.x.
Included in the retail versions of Acrobat 2.1 software for Macintosh,
Windows and UNIX systems, Weblink is available as a free plug-in
application and can be downloaded from the Internet at
http://www.adobe.com/, Adobe's World Wide Web server. All versions of the
free Acrobat Reader 2.1 support the ability to follow connections created
by Weblink.

With Movie Tool, authors can easily incorporate multimedia elements into
PDF files including QuickTime and AVI video and audio files. In addition,
authors can specify the placement and layout of a digital video file and
the way it will be displayed, providing authors with greater control over
the multimedia message. Movie Tool is available with Windows and Macintosh
versions of Acrobat Exchange 2.1 software, and playback of movies and
sounds is supported in Macintosh and Windows versions of Acrobat Reader
2.1.

Additional Enhancements

Acrobat 2.1 software has a variety of enhancements for publishers, as well
as end users. Adobe Type Manager (ATM) technology for rendering Type 1
fonts has been built into Acrobat 2.1 software for the Windows platform,
eliminating the need to install ATM on Windows systems. Users of Windows
3.1 and Windows 95 can optionally install a standard version of ATM. In
addition, Acrobat Exchange 2.1 and Acrobat Reader 2.1 now support OLE 2.0
on both Macintosh and Windows platforms, allowing systems integrators and
VARS to easily integrate Acrobat software with other applications, such as
Lotus Notes. Acrobat Catalog 2.1 software, which lets authors create
full-text indexes of all PDF files, is now available for Macintosh, native
Power Macintosh and Windows systems.

Localized versions of Acrobat 2.1 software are now available in Spanish and
Swedish. Other supported languages include French, German, Dutch, Italian
and U.S. and International English.

Price/Availability

Windows and Macintosh versions of Adobe Acrobat Exchange 2.1, expected to
be available in September 1995, are priced at $195. Registered users can
upgrade from Acrobat 2.0 for $29 or from Acrobat 1.0 for $79. SunOS, Sun
Solaris and HP-UX versions of Acrobat Exchange 2.1, expected to be
available in October 1995, are priced at $295. Registered users of Acrobat
1.0 for Unix can upgrade for $89.

Windows and Macintosh versions of Adobe Acrobat Pro 2.1, expected to be
available in September 1995, are priced at $595. Registered users can
upgrade from Acrobat Pro 2.0 for $89 or from Acrobat Pro 1.0 for $199.
SunOS, Sun Solaris and HP-UX versions, expected to be available in October
1995, are priced at $1,895. Registered users can upgrade from Acrobat
Distiller 1.0 to Acrobat Pro 2.1 for $549.

Adobe Acrobat 2.1 for Workgroups, expected to be available in September
1995, is priced at $1,595. It includes a 10 user license for any
combination of Macintosh and Windows versions of Acrobat Exchange 2.1 and
a one user license of either the Windows or Macintosh versions of the
Acrobat Distiller 2.1 and Acrobat Catalog 2.1 programs. Registered users
can upgrade from Acrobat for Workgroups 2.0 for $199 or from Acrobat 1.0
for Workgroups for $349. Windows and Macintosh versions of Acrobat Catalog
2.1 are available separately for $500.

Acrobat Search for CD-ROMs, expected to be available in October 1995, is
priced at $695 and includes unlimited distribution rights on a per CD
title basis for Acrobat Reader 2.1 with Acrobat Search.

The Acrobat Reader 2.1 is widely distributed for free and supports Windows
3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95, native Power Macintosh, Macintosh, SunOS, Sun
Solaris, HP-UX and SGI IRIX. Adobe Systems Incorporated, founded in 1982,
is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Adobe develops, markets and
supports computer software products and technologies that enable users to
create, display, print and communicate electronic documents. The company
licenses its technology to major computer and publishing suppliers, and
markets a line of powerful, but easy to use products for home and small
business users. Adobe has subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim
serving a worldwide network of dealers and distributors. Adobe's 1994
revenue was approximately $598 million.
 
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