Deneba Releases Canvas 8 For Mac OS X Technology Preview; Public Beta Preview Release Is Now Available For Free Download

Business Wire, Sept 5, 2001

Business Editors/Technology Writers

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2001

Deneba Software today announced the availability of a special public preview version of Canvas(TM) 8 Professional fully optimized for Apple Computer's new Mac OS X. This preview edition targets illustrators, graphic artists and business professionals who are early adopters of Mac OS X or are considering a transition to the new operating system. Now, for the first time, the OS X user community will be able to experience the award-winning power and features of the new Deneba Canvas 8.

The Mac OS X version of Canvas 8 contains hundreds of enhancements and advanced new features including: vector and raster Sequence recording, AppleScript(TM), ColorSync(TM), and QuickTime(TM) support. The new version also contains customizable Web Image Slicing and direct Flash export.

Deneba's enthusiastic support for OS X should not surprise long-time Apple watchers. Fifteen years ago, the Miami-based software developer was one of the first companies to engineer and market products for the Macintosh platform. OS X is widely viewed by the technology industry as a significant improvement as it promises more stability and enhanced graphics capabilities.

Rob Crawford, Senior Software Engineer is leading the Canvas 8 / OS-X project. "Canvas 8's user interface has been optimized for Aqua, and has numerous new time saving features," he stated. "Also, developing Canvas 8 in a protected memory operating system like OS X, allowed us to develop a very robust product that can easily handle the largest graphic files."

Canvas 8 also contains an updated PDF(TM) export filter which supports full data stream compression, direct embedding of PostScript(R) and TrueType(TM) fonts, hypertext links, transitions and much more.

While the public preview edition only runs under OS-X, the shipping release works equally well under OS 9 thanks to Apple Carbon technology. Deneba expects to ship the final version of Canvas 8 for Macintosh on October 1, 2001.

The public Canvas 8 OS X Preview Edition is available as a free download from Deneba's web site: http://www.deneba.com.

Deneba Software develops and markets innovative cross-platform solutions for Macintosh(TM) OS, and Windows(TM). Deneba Software is located at 1150 NW 72nd Avenue, Second Floor, Miami, FL 33126; Telephone: (305) 596-5644; Fax: (305) 273-9069.