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Subject: Pixel Magician and
Image Agent Support Network
         Floating Node Licensing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information, contact: Mieke Erdtsieck Telephone: 310/820-9145 Fax:
310/820-5930 E-mail: info@bacchus.com

New Versions of Pixel Magician and Image Agent with Support for Network
Floating Node Licensing.

Santa Monica, California - February 16, 1993 -- Bacchus, Inc. ships Pixel
Magician version 1.3 and Image Agent version 1.1.

Bacchus now offers network floating node versions of Pixel Magician and Image
Agent.  Licenses are enabled and upgraded by phone, e-mail or fax. Utility
programs are provided to help system administrators monitor network usage.

Heterogeneous licensing will also be supported.  Network licenses will float
between different machines running the NeXTSTEP operating system, e.g.
NeXTSTEP 040 based machines and NeXTSTEP 486 based machines.

Versions of Pixel Magician and Image Agent running under NeXTSTEP 486 will be
available in late May to coincide with the NeXTWORLD Expo. Free upgrades will
be offered to all registered users.

Pixel Magician 1.3 removes a major limitation found in previous versions, the
inability to open and convert images with filenames/pathnames that contained
non-alphanumeric characters. Pixel Magician can now read and convert images
with any valid unix filename/filepath. Other minor fixes for both Pixel
Magician and Image Agent include more robust support for handling raster PICT
files.

Image Agent is included free with Pixel Magician or can be purchased
separately. Network and site license pricing is available on request. Both
products are available directly from Bacchus and through authorized NeXT
distributors, VAR's and dealers.

Bacchus, Inc., founded in 1985 and based in Santa Monica, CA, specializes in
the development of graphics and communications software tools for DOS and UNIX
Workstations.


Pixel Magician and Image Agent are trademarks of Bacchus, Inc. All other brand
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.