Educational Institutions Benefit from Extensis Font and Digital Asset Management Solutions

Business Wire, Oct 1, 2007

Rochester Institute of Technology and Queens University of Charlotte Utilize Extensis Solutions to Manage Their Font and Digital Assets

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., today announced educational institutions that benefit from Extensis creative asset management solutions including Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Queens University of Charlotte.

RIT, an Extensis customer since 1997, implements both Portfolio and Suitcase Fusion in student labs for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). Queens University of Charlotte utilizes Extensis Portfolio as an archival tool, allowing the university relations department to manage photographs and logos for use in website materials, university-generated publications, staff presentations and more.

"Suitcase Fusion and Portfolio are wonderful enhancements to our arts and imaging programs," says John Cox, chairperson of NTID's Arts and Imaging Studies Department. "These applications will allow students to become experienced in cutting-edge organization and the efficient use of fonts and other digital assets."

The above organizations join a growing list of educational institutions that have chosen Extensis solutions, including Royal College of Art, The Art Institutes, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and Oregon Health & Science University, among others.

About Portfolio

Portfolio 8.5 is the perfect software solution for marketing and creative workgroups--it streamlines workflows through efficient organization, viewing, routing, archiving and distribution of creative assets. A surprisingly affordable solution, Portfolio Server 8.5 ensures proper use of a brand's creative assets across all internal and external teams, partners and vendors, while eliminating the guesswork involved in hunting down and tracking creative assets. Portfolio--trusted by IT; approved by creatives. Individual creative professionals can also power up their workflow with Portfolio 8.5, the surprisingly affordable, easy-to-use desktop version is a top choice of graphic designers and photographers.

About Suitcase Fusion

Suitcase Fusion is the only professional font manager with industrial-strength features. Only Suitcase Fusion offers precise Font Sense[TM] auto-activation--an exclusive technology that allows Suitcase Fusion to identify and automatically activate the exact fonts used in a document, including embedded EPS or PDF file fonts. And only Suitcase Fusion has a central font repository, Font Vault that integrates with the Suitcase Fusion database and makes font management predictable and reliable. Font Vault utilizes Font Sense technology to allow true font identification and professional duplicate font management.

About Extensis

Extensis is a software developer that allows creative workgroups and professionals to streamline their workflow and secure their brand by efficiently and effectively managing their creative assets and fonts. Extensis' award-winning client/server and desktop products are used by hundreds of Fortune 5000 companies and include Suitcase, Suitcase Fusion, and Font Reserve for font management and Portfolio for creative assets management. Extensis was founded in 1993 and is based in Portland, Oregon and the United Kingdom. Extensis is a division of Celartem Inc., which is wholly owned by Celartem Technology Inc., (Hercules:4330). For additional information, visit http://www.extensis.com or call 1-800-796-9798.

About Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, Hercules:4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. with headquarters in Seattle.