Adobe Ships FrameViewer 5 and Retrieval Tools; FrameMaker Companion Products Add New Platforms and Viewing and Search Features.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 1996--Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ) today began shipping Adobe(R) FrameViewer(R) 5, the next generation on-line viewing tool for Adobe FrameMaker(R) and Adobe FrameMaker+SGML SGML in full Standard Generalized Markup Language Markup language for organizing and tagging elements of a document, including headings, paragraphs, tables, and graphics. (R) documents. Adobe FrameViewer 5 adds new features such as a QuickAccess Bar, annotation capabilities and FluidView, which allows text to flow continuously within a viewing window as the window is resized. In addition to versions for Apple(R) Macintosh(R) and Power Macintosh(R), Microsoft(R) Windows(R), SunOS(TM)/Solaris(R) and Hewlett-Packard HP/UX HP/UX Hewlett-Packard UNIX operating system HP/UX Unexploded Human Particulate Operating System , FrameViewer 5 supports Adobe FrameMaker's new availability for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (R) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. (R), Digital UNIX(R) and IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. (R). Concurrent with the release of FrameViewer 5, Adobe is introducing FrameViewer Retrieval Tools, a separate product that provides a tool kit for developers to create extensive search capabilities for collections of electronic FrameMaker documents. Adobe FrameViewer Overview Adobe FrameViewer software allows users to distribute FrameMaker documents across computing platforms quickly and flexibly. With InstantView(TM) technology, any Adobe FrameMaker or Adobe FrameMaker+SGML document can be opened -- without any processing or conversion -- on all platforms supported by Adobe FrameViewer 5. Indexes and tables of contents in FrameMaker documents automatically become hypertext links in FrameViewer; navigating publications on-line is as simple as clicking on these links. Version 5 New Features Adobe FrameViewer 5 features the new QuickAccess Bar, a tool bar that provides function icons for common tasks, including magnification, copying, navigation and adding annotations and bookmarks. FrameViewer 5's new annotation feature enables users to personalize Adobe FrameViewer documents with their own bookmarks and notes, marked "Private" for personal reference, or "Public" to share with coworkers. To make documents easier to read on a computer monitor, the new FluidView provides users with continuous text flow as they resize Verb 1. resize - change the size of; make the size more appropriate size - make to a size; bring to a suitable size rescale - establish on a new scale the viewing window. FrameViewer Retrieval Tools The new Adobe FrameViewer Retrieval Tools, sold separately to developers as an add-on to FrameMaker and FrameViewer, provide powerful API clients that extend the functionality of FrameViewer to provide cross-document, full-text search capabilities with large document collections. With Adobe FrameViewer Retrieval Tools, document authors can build and interactively validate search index databases. Users can then search across multiple document groups and collections using keywords or Boolean expressions. The Search History feature keeps a record of searches accessible for future reference. When the desired documents are found, FrameViewer enables the user to view them instantly. Price and Availability Adobe FrameViewer 5 is now available through Adobe's direct sales force and selected resellers worldwide for Apple Macintosh/Power Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, SunOS/Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard HP/UX, Digital UNIX and IRIX. The suggested retail price for FrameViewer 5 is $29 for Macintosh and Windows and $195 for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . Upgrades to FrameViewer are $50 for UNIX workstations and $25 for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. Volume and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and pricing also are available. The suggested retail price for Adobe FrameViewer Retrieval Tools is $3,995 for Power Macintosh and Windows and $4,995 for UNIX. For product information or to order FrameViewer 5, customers in the United States and Canada can call Adobe at 800/843-7263. Internet users can access Adobe's World Wide Web documents at http://www.adobe.com. Customers outside the United States and Canada should contact their local distributors. CONTACT: Adobe Systems Peter Card, 206/470-7268 peter.card@adobe.com |
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