Adobe Acrobat to Offer Enhanced Compression and File Optimization Features
For Improved Web Performance

Mountain View, Calif., (April 30, 1996) (Nasdaq:ADBE) -- Adobe Systems
Incorporated announced today that the next version of Adobe Acrobat
software, codenamed "Amber," will include enhanced file compression and
optimization capabilities to enable customers to more quickly deliver
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files over the Internet. The
enhancements may permit customers to significantly reduce the overall size
of PDF files, in some cases by as much as 50 per cent, while providing
full support for graphically rich elements such as fonts, line art and
images.

"We expect the compression enhancements to Acrobat software to
significantly help customers use the existing bandwidth of the Web to
deliver a much broader and richer set of information without paying a big
price in performance or resource efficiency," said Dave Emmett, vice
president, Acrobat products group, Adobe Systems Incorporated.

The new compression and optimization capabilities will extend the existing
set of compression technologies used by Acrobat software to convert
documents into PDF. The enhancements include:

Compressed Type 1 Fonts

With the current versions of Adobe Acrobat software, the user has the
option of embedding Type 1 fonts in the PDF file. With the next version of
Acrobat, Type 1 fonts embedded in the PDF file will be stored in a
compressed format, reducing the overall size of the font by as much as 25
to 30 per cent when an entire font is embedded or even greater when a font
subset is embedded.

Optimization of Graphic Images

Many highly formatted documents use repeating graphic objects, such as
background images that repeat on every slide of a presentation. In the
next release of Acrobat software, PDF files can be optimized to eliminate
redundant graphic objects. The impact of file optimization on file size
will vary greatly from file to file, depending on how graphics are used.
For example, a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation file with a repeating
graphic object on every slide was reduced from 1.5 MB in the native file
format to 750 KB in PDF using file optimization.

ZIP Compression

In the next release of Acrobat software, customers will have the option to
use ZIP compression for text, line art and indexed color images, providing
up to an additional 25 per cent compression of those elements in a PDF
file.

Based in Mountain View, California, Adobe Systems Incorporated develops and
supports products to help people express and use information in more
imaginative and meaningful ways, across all print and electronic media.
Founded in 1982, Adobe helped launch the desktop publishing revolution.
Today, the company offers a market-leading line of application software
and type products for creating and distributing visually rich
communication materials; licenses its industry-standard technologies to
major hardware manufacturers, software developers and service providers;
and offers integrated software solutions to businesses of all sizes. For
more information, see Adobe's home page at http://www.adobe.com on the
World Wide Web.
 
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