TOM SAWYER SOFTWARE READIES APPWARE COMPONENTS

Premier graph layout and editing components to support Novell AppWare

BERKELEY, Calif, June 7, 1994 - Tom Sawyer Software Corporation has
announced a family of portable graph editors that support Borland
ObjectWindows for Novell Appware. Designed to improve the quality of a
wide variety of application programs with its sophisticated automated
object positioning algorithms and data visualization services, the Tom
Sawyer Software Graph Editor Toolkit will enable application builders to
produce better products in much less time.

Tom Sawyer Software will support each platform that Borland and Novell plan
to support with ObjectWindows for AppWare including Microsoft Windows,
Microsoft Windows NT; the Macintosh, OS/2, and numerous versions of UNIX
including Sun OS, Solaris, HPUX, UnixWare, AIX and DEC OSFI AXP.

"Automated layout algorithms are surprisingly difficult to implement," said
Brendan P. Madden, President and CEO of Tom Sawyer Software. "In addition,
developers are very concerned with leveraging their efforts onto multiple
platforms. To solve these two problems, we have produced a product that
will run on many platforms from a common code base and allows an
application to represent and visualize complex data with graphs."

"When a company licenses the Graph Editor Toolkit, they become free to
focus resources on their particular specialty rather than attempting to
implement time-consuming layout algorithms," he continued. "This product
provides graph editing and navigation software that is tightly integrated
with an automated graph layout engine. A number of unique placement styles
are provided so that end-users can visualize data in different forms and
subsequently gain new insight into that data. We can literally save a
workgroup of developers several years of painstaking development work."

The Graph Editor Toolkit can be used as a new application framework or it
can be bundled directly into an existing application. The automated layout
features are very appealing because developers see immediate improvements
in their products. Not only do they instantly get the tools necessary for
data visualization, but they also have support for numerous computing
platforms through Borland ObjectWindows and Novell AppWare.

New features in the Graph Editor Toolkit include faster layout libraries,
new font and color controls, multi-page printing, print preview,
split-pane editing, drag and drop file support, subject/view and
document/view support, floating or locked tool bars, status bars and
object persistence. Graphical objects may own "gadget controls" such as
bitmaps, single or multi-line text and standard window controls. OLE 2.0
and OpenDoc support are planned for future releases.

Intricate navigation and data management features allow applications to
visualize related data that spans many graphs. Support is provided for
single or multi-windowed navigation from graph to graph. Within a single
window, objects can interactively show and hide the detail behind them
with various framing and layering techniques. "There is no other graph
editing product that has this power or flexibility", commented Mr.
Madden.

Three layout styles provide support for a wide range of applications. The
Hierarchical layout library is ideal for use with project management
software, compiler and software development tools, data inspection
software, work-flow software and reverse engineering applications. The
Circular and Symmetric layout libraries have been designed specifically
for the network management, design and simulation markets. Additional
family products are under development that will provide for additional
layout styles and incorporate many new editing features.

Tom Sawyer Software, based in Berkeley, California, was founded in 1992 to
develop a family of related automated layout and editing products based on
the latest graph layout technology and object-oriented design principles.

Tom Sawyer Software
1824B Fourth St
Berkeley, CA 94710
510-848-0853,  fax 510-848-0854

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