Dataware Technologies and Adobe Collaborate To Provide Acrobat Search Capabilities for PDF Files Across Internet and Intranets

Business Wire, April 23, 1996

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- April 23, 1996--Dataware Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of information management software and services, announces a new collaboration with Adobe Systems Incorporated to enable documents in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) to be searched and retrieved across the Internet and Intranets.

Working with Adobe, Dataware Technologies is developing a Web server module for NetAnswer, its robust information management, query, and retrieval system for the World Wide Web. This new plug-in module will allow users of the next version of Adobe Acrobat software, code-named "Amber," to publish collections of PDF files on any major Web server, search their content, and retrieve documents across the Internet and Intranets. Amber provides enhanced PDF file viewing, such as page-at-a-time downloading from within popular browsers such as Netscape Navigator.

The plug-in module will include the following:

o Content searching of PDF files in Internet and Intranet applications

o Highlighting of search hit terms in conjunction with the Acrobat

Amber Reader and Netscape Navigator 2.0

o Page-at-a-time downloading of individual pages in a PDF

o Selection and viewing of only the pages that meet search criteria or

selections of complete PDFs.

"The new Web server module for NetAnswer will only enhance the already powerful electronic publishing capabilities of Adobe Acrobat software," comments Dave Emmet, Senior Vice President, Adobe Systems Incorporated. "By teaming with Dataware on this new product, we are helping our customers to leverage their investment in Acrobat software and easily extend their current online publishing environments to the Internet and Intranets."

"Combining the high-powered search capabilities of NetAnswer with Adobe's Acrobat Amber technology product, meets a significant demand among Internet information providers and searchers, while increasing the value of PDF as a standard Web publishing format," comments Bill Phelan, Director of Internet Product Marketing at Dataware Technologies.

The plug-in module is currently scheduled for commercial availability in the Fourth Quarter, 1996. -0-

Dataware Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: DWTI) develops and markets software for the new information age. Dataware's innovative software products and solutions enable customers to manage and distribute a wide variety of information via the Internet, CD-ROM, enterprise networks, commercial online services, print-on-demand, and combinations of these media. Today, Dataware's software is used by more than 2,000 organizations worldwide -- including publishers, corporations, government agencies, professional firms and educational institutions -- serving over 400,000 end-users in more than 20 countries.

Based in Mountain View, Calif., Adobe Systems Inc. develops and supports products to help people express and use information in more imaginative and meaningful ways, across all print and electronic media. Founded in 1982, Adobe helped launch the desktop publishing revolution. Today, the company offers a market leading line of application software and type products for creating and distributing visually rich communication materials; licenses its industry-standard technologies to major hardware manufacturers, software developers, and service providers; and offers integrated software solutions to businesses of all sizes. For more information, see Adobe's home page at http://www.adobe.com on the World Wide Web. -0-

Dataware is a registered trademark, and NetAnswer a trademark, owned by Dataware Technologies, Inc. Adobe and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc. Other company or product names mentioned in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners, and are hereby acknowledged.

CONTACT: Ann Hawkins Rebecca Michals

Dataware Technologies, Inc. Blanc & Otus (for Adobe)

(617) 621-0820 (415) 512-0500 x243

ahawkins@dataware.com

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