PC DOCS And Adobe Announce Strategic Development Agreement For Acrobat Technologies

Business Wire, Sept 21, 1995

TORONTO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1995--PC DOCS GROUP INTL INC. (TSE:DXX)(NASDAQ:DOCSF) PC DOCS Group International Inc. today announced that its U.S. subsidiary, PC DOCS, Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. have signed a strategic development, marketing and licensing agreement whereby PC DOCS will create and market a new product line based on the Adobe(TM) Acrobat(TM) and Acrobat Capture(TM) technologies. This new product line will cover a wide range of advanced document management and electronic delivery functions and will allow customers to seamlessly integrate the formerly disparate worlds of document management and electronic publishing, including publishing on the Internet. Initial versions of these products are scheduled to be released in Spring, 1996, with more advanced versions expected later in the year.

The new product line will enable corporate customers to use PC DOCS's award winning product, DOCS Open, to automatically create Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files, manage PDF files and build hyperlinked collections that can be easily accessed and distributed over corporate networks, or on the Internet.

"We are excited that this agreement with Adobe will bring a whole new level of capability to the market, providing customers a way to both manage and reuse their electronic information and to harmonize their document management, electronic publishing and Internet strategies," stated Larry Bohn, Executive Vice President of PC DOCS Inc.. "Acrobat has become the defacto standard for electronic distribution and with the new Internet capabilities and the Acrobat Capture product, we can provide an end-to-end document management solution that spans the whole document lifecycle."

"Acrobat technology is rapidly becoming a standard for universal electronic publishing within corporations and across the Internet", said Stephen A. MacDonald, Senior Vice President at Adobe Systems Incorporated. "The open architecture of Acrobat technology makes it ideal for integration with critical business applications such as document management. Together, Acrobat and DOCS Open offer customers the competitive advantage of an end-to- end, enterprise document management solution."

About Adobe

Adobe Acrobat software allows publishers to create visually rich, cross-platform electronic documents using virtually any authoring tool available today. With Acrobat, users can publish once in Adobe PDF - an open, searchable file format that preserves document fidelity across all major computer platforms and printers. This file can then be distributed electronically across the Internet and on-line services in CD-ROM format, over corporate networks or directly to an output device.

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. About PC DOCS Inc.

PC DOCS, Inc. is the leading provider of enterprise document management software for networked professionals and sells its award winning software, DOCS Open through a channel of authorized resellers, integrators and distributors worldwide.

In the past ten months, PC DOCS has won the Grand Slam of competitive reviews for document management. DOCS Open scored the top ranking in comparisons in LAN Times (September, 1995), InfoWorld (July, 1995), ComputerWorld (April, 1995) and PC Magazine (November, 1994). In each of these reviews, DOCS Open from PC DOCS consistently outscored its top three competitors.

PC DOCS Group International Inc. and its subsidiaries, PC DOCS, Inc., The Quartex Corporation Inc., CMS/Data Corporation, CompInfo, Inc. and Canterbury Systems Corp., are suppliers of software and computer systems to businesses, banks and other financial institutions, hospitals, retail and college stores, distribution companies, government agencies and the legal industry, in North America, England, Europe, Australia and the Far East.

CONTACT: PC DOCS Group International Inc.

Jo-Anne M. Chang, 416/445-4823; Fax: 416/445-6228