Adobe Aligns with AT&T, Xerox and Wace For Remote Electronic File Transfer
and Communications Services

San Francisco, Calif., (September 26, 1995) (Nasdaq: ADBE) -- Adobe Systems
Incorporated today announced that it will provide Adobe Virtual Network
telecommunications technology to AT&T, Xerox and Wace The Imaging Network
for integration with their respective remote file transfer and demand
printing systems.

To speed file delivery times and create a more transparent link between
graphic arts service providers and their clients, the integration of Adobe
Virtual Network technology will provide a reliable and cost-effective
means to transport electronically produced documents over telephone and
ISDN lines, networks and the Internet.

"By joining with these three leading industry systems providers, the vision
of a streamlined digital publishing society in which documents are
created, distributed electronically and then printed locally or remotely
becomes pervasive and real," said James Betlyon, vice president,
production imaging products, Adobe Systems Incorporated. "Our collective
goal is to meld the appropriate technologies so that the rapidly evolving
standards for distributed demand printing are met and surpassed. AT&T will
integrate Adobe Virtual Network technology with its Network Demand
Printing Service to create a worldwide network that will allow quick
delivery times for large publishers and their customers to print documents
on demand. Creating a standard interface for access to production sites
will dramatically reduce shipping costs and production timelines.

"Adobe's Virtual Network software is a complement to the AT&T Network
Demand Printing service. Together, they provide a complete solution for
off-site printing of large files," said Gary Hickox, AT&T Applications and
Imaging Services vice president. "Now, businesses and publishers can
utilize Adobe's Virtual Network software for sending files quickly and
cost-efficiently over the reliable and secure AT&T network. And, because
the AT&T network manages, monitors and tracks files from point of
origination to final destination, clients can be assured that the job will
be consummated without overseeing transport of these files.

Xerox plans to combine the functionality of Adobe Virtual Network
technology with Xerox-developed client software for job submission. Along
with bridging Adobe's desktop software applications such as Adobe
PageMaker and Adobe Illustrator with Xerox DocuTech services, the
"distribute then print scenarios created by both companies will be
realized. In June, 1995, AT&T and Xerox announced the market trial of the
AT&T Network Demand Printing Service combined with the Xerox Distributed
Print on Demand software. The combined service is currently installed at
selected DocuTech customer sites.

"The concept of distributed print on demand is changing the way the world
thinks about printing and publishing," said Joseph W. McGrath, vice
president, strategy and integration, Xerox Production Systems. "Adobe
Virtual Network will provide an efficient way for our customers to
distribute-then-print. Wace The Imaging Network, the largest prepress and
communications network in the world, will add Adobe Virtual Network
software to its Legac file transfer and remote conferencing system.
Combining the two products will provide the additional benefits of a job
log, a job ticket and file monitor to Wace customers.

"As a worldwide graphic art fulfillment company, we're looking to provide
our graphic arts customers with a seamless solution for working with
specialized suppliers worldwide, said Ken Todd, president of Wace U.S.A.
"Our alliance with Adobe is built on a mutual commitment to open,
non-proprietary systems that add value to digital imaging capabilities.

In related news, Adobe announced in August that it will provide a
shrinkwrapped product of its Virtual Network software scheduled to be
available to U.S. and Canadian customers in the fourth quarter, 1995.
Co-developed by Group Logic, a developer of telecommunications software,
Adobe Virtual Network product will consist of a Host module at the graphic
arts provider site and Client modules at the providers' customer sites to
link these customer Client sites to the provider's production system.

Trade shops, service bureaus and print houses will use the Host module to
send Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files, low-resolution For
Position Only (FPO) images and other electronically produced files to
their customers. Conversely, customers will use the Client module to
connect to their provider's network to either retrieve files or submit job
files. Customers who own the Host module can receive incoming jobs and
route them automatically to processes within production workflows such as
an Adobe OPEN program pipeline or an Adobe Color Central software printing
queue. Each job will be compressed, given an electronic Job Ticket, and
then transferred automatically according to the user's preferences.

Adobe plans to bundle a version of the Virtual Network Client module in
upcoming releases of Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe
Photoshop, thus making remote file transmission a ubiquitous capability
from desktop-based creation tools. To connect Virtual Network Client users
with production service suppliers, Adobe plans to create an easily
accessible directory of all registered Virtual Network Host sites on
Adobe's Worldwide Web home page. Virtual Network Client users will then be
able to use Adobe's Internet site to find a service provider by specifying
criteria such as geographical location or range of services offered.

Adobe Systems Incorporated, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain
View, California. Adobe develops, markets and supports computer software
products and technologies that enable users to create, display, print and
communicate electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to
major computer, printing and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of
application software and type products for authoring visually rich
documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of powerful, but easy
to use, products for home and small business users. Adobe has subsidiaries
in Europe and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide network of dealers and
distributors. Adobe's 1994 revenue was approximately $598 million.
 
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