Acrobat 5 Announced by Adobe

["Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adobe has publicly announced Acrobat 5. The following is a press
release issued this morning. Further information is available from
the Adobe web site.

        

- Dov
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Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Software Streamlines Business Processes Across the Extended Enterprise

Customers Benefit from Tight Web Integration, XML Support for Easier Data Exchange within Adobe PDF files

San Jose, Calif. (March 12, 2001) (Nasdaq: ADBE)Adobe Systems Incorporated, the leader in Network Publishing, today introduced Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0 software, a major upgrade to one of the company’s cornerstone
applications. With Acrobat 5.0, Adobe is enabling organizations to reduce cycle times and increase the efficiency of business processes across their extended enterprises of customers and partners.

True to its heritage, Acrobat 5.0 continues the tradition of allowing users to produce documents that retain the fidelity of the original, exactly as intended. Customers can be certain that Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files they create in Acrobat
5.0 and share online can be viewed and printed using the ubiquitous Acrobat Reader across various hardware and operating systems.

But Acrobat 5.0 functionality goes well beyond this fundamental value proposition: professionals can now work more efficiently as individuals and with teams; customers have enhanced capabilities for creating, digitally signing and sending secure documents;
businesses can more effectively use electronic forms to reduce costs and increase the accuracy of information in those forms; users can distribute information in a more accessible manner to people with disabilities; and IT managers can now easily deploy
and maintain Acrobat software across an entire organization.

“In the coming years, as business workflows move to the Web, there will be an increased need to access information anytime, anywhere,” said Rita Knox, vice president and research director, Gartner. “Software that allows organizations to save time and money
by supporting such ubiquitous access will be key. This involves both technology and management of user requirements and preferences.”

Acrobat 5.0 offers a number of key benefits that enable business, graphic arts and IT professionals to excel in this new Network Publishing environment where they must work efficiently at Web speed. Tight Web integration based on WebDistributed Authoring
and Versioning (WebDAV) and Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) allows teams to simultaneously share comments on Adobe PDF files from within a browser. Support for the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) makes it simple for users to integrate data, such as
metadata and forms data in Adobe PDF files, with back-end systems. And stronger integration with enterprise deployment tools enables IT professionals to autoinstall and maintain Acrobat 5.0 over a network to thousands of multi-user or lockdown desktop
systems.

For a comprehensive list of the new features in Acrobat 5.0 software, please visit:
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/acr5nfhs.pdf.

Pricing and Availability
Acrobat 5.0 software for Windows 95 OSR 2.0, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 5 or 6, Windows ME and Windows 2000, and Macintosh OS 8.6 (all Web-based capabilities are not available due to Apple OS limitations), 9.0.4 and 9.1, is expected
to ship in the United States and Canada in the second quarter of 2001 for an estimated street price of US$249. Registered users of earlier Acrobat software versions can upgrade to Acrobat 5.0 for US$99. French, German and Japanese versions of Acrobat 5.0
are expected to be available shortly after the initial release. Information about other language versions, as well as pricing, upgrade and support policies, is available online at www.adobe.com. For more
information, customers can call 1-888-724-4508 or visit
<http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/>.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems Incorporated (www.adobe.com) builds award-winning software solutions for Network Publishing, including Web, print, video, wireless and broadband applications. Its
graphic design, imaging, dynamic media and authoring tools enable customers to create, manage and deliver visually-rich, reliable content. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Adobe is the second largest PC software company in the U.S., with annual revenues
exceeding $1.2 billion.

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