Adobe Systems and Frame Technology Announce An Integrated Solution for Publishing to the World Wide Web; Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and FrameMaker offered together for authoring on Sun Netra and Workstation Platforms

Business Wire, July 24, 1995

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 1995--Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) and Frame Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: FRAM) today announced an integrated solution for authoring documents to be printed or published on the Internet's World Wide Web.

The Frame & Adobe Internet Publishing Solution, which combines Adobe Illustrator(TM), Adobe Photoshop(TM) and FrameMaker(R) software with a Cookbook showing users how to author documents for Web and print using all three products, is expected to be available in early August for Netra(TM) and other Sun(TM) systems.

Published estimates are that the number of Web sites exploded from 30,000 to 60,000 between April and June of this year. Much of that growth is from organizations using the Web to share information that they also need to print. The Frame & Adobe Internet Publishing Solution integrates the key components required for authoring color publications for print and electronic distribution -- illustrations, images, text and hypertext links -- on the leading Internet platform. According to a 1994 survey conducted by the Internet Society, the Sun platform is used for 56 percent of all servers on the Internet.

"The synergy between Frame(R) and Adobe(TM) products unifies the authoring environment for Web and print publishing, offering businesses the richest solution available today," said Doug Kaewert, Director of Market Development at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "It gives Sun Netra customers a powerful environment for creating and publishing original content."

The Frame & Adobe Internet Publishing Solution

The Frame & Adobe Internet Publishing Solution consists of three applications that are the standards for high-end desktop publishing: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and FrameMaker. Each application excels in a different area to contribute to the final document, but cooperate smoothly with the others for easy authoring. Together, they provide unprecedented ability to quickly produce high-quality, color documents for publication in print and for viewing on the World-Wide Web using browser software such as Netscape Navigator(TM) or Mosaic(TM).

"At most sites, Web publishing is a laborious process in which engineers program page layout and convert images to make documents accessible," said Bill Sawyer, president of Digital Publishing Specialists, a publishing consultancy based in Sausalito, California. "The Frame & Adobe Internet Publishing Solution offers our clients brand-name products from leading software companies that automatically create documents which can easily be printed and published on the Web."

The Frame & Adobe Internet Publishing Solution's Cookbook walks users through the fundamentals of using the three products together to prepare information for the Internet and for print. Adobe Illustrator excels at creating logos, illustrations, diagrams, titles and icons used for Web push-buttons. Authors can combine illustrations with Adobe Photoshop images to create composite artwork and special effects that can be saved in the GIF format required by the Web as well as in standard printing formats. Finished artwork is brought into new or existing FrameMaker documents. FrameMaker's long document handling features such as automatic table of contents and index generation; hypertext linking and HTML; Adobe PostScript(TM) software and support for the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) output make authoring easy for printing and for the Web.

The combined products offer high precision printing and display, with easy-to use font handling capabilities and the ability to share Adobe's industry-standard Type 1 fonts across applications. They also take advantage of the strengths of Sun's Solaris(R) operating system, such as multi-tasking, high computation throughput, easy Internet access, and ease of workgroup collaboration across networks. Completely compatible versions of all products are also sold separately for Sun Solaris, Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Apple's Mac(TM) OS.

The Frame & Adobe Internet Publishing Solution will be available from Adobe and Frame authorized UNIX(R) resellers in North America. Resellers may obtain product from Sun Netra partners Access Graphics and Merisel. The suggested retail price is $3,995, compared to $5,485 for the products purchased separately. For product information or the name of a local reseller, call 1-800/843-7263.

The Companies

Adobe Systems, 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, printing and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of applications software and type products for authoring visually rich documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of powerful, but easy to use, products for home and small business users. Adobe has subsidiaries in Europe and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide network of dealers and distributors. Adobe's 1994 revenue was approximately $598 million.