Xanthus USA David Peter Phone: +1-619-632-9700 Fax: +1-619-632-9702 Email: info@xanthus.com Xanthus International Jesper Lundh Phone: +46-8-635 30 62 Fax: +46-8-98 70 67 Email: info@xanthus.se XANTHUS ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR WORD, WORDPERFECT, FRAMEMAKER, AMI PRO AND WRITENOW FILE FORMATS IN ITS OPENWRITE WORD PROCESSOR FOR NEXTSTEP San Diego, CA 1 August 2, 1994 1 Xanthus International today announced that OpenWrite, the company's new word processor for NEXTSTEP, will include support for all of the leading Windows, DOS and Macintosh based word processors. Scheduled for release this summer, OpenWrite 1.0 will be available for NEXTSTEP on HP PA-RISC, Intel and Motorola platforms. OpenWrite will read and write to a large variety of document formats, including ASCII, RTF, RTFD, WriteNow, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Maker Interchange Format (Framemaker), Lotus Ami Pro and others, as well as most of the popular graphics formats found on the Macintosh and PC platforms. *Exchanging documents with users on other platforms is an extremely important issue for NEXTSTEP users and OpenWrite meets all demands: said David Peter, Vice President of Sales for Xanthus USA. Peter added that *OpenWrite is currently being evaluated at most large NEXTSTEP enterprise deployments, and we've added this support at their request. We'll deliver an extremely robust, full-featured word processor tailored to meet customer needs.: OpenWrite is designed for the everyday word processor user and has most of the features found in an application like Microsoft Word, including headers, footers, footnotes, hierarchical styles, variables, borders, multi-level undo, mailmerge, NEXTSTEP spell-checking and multiple columns, as well as user controllable wrap-around graphics (fixed and floating), kerning, tracking, and free-floating text blocks. A future release will include support for multifile books, cross-references, table of contents, indexing and redlining. OpenWrite also supports Xanthus) new Open Object Embedding (OOE) standard. The OOE standard allows for compound documents to be created and manipulated quickly and easily, and is built around standard NEXTSTEP building blocks such as Distributed Objects and the NEXTSTEP Pasteboard. For example, from within OpenWrite, the user can create spreadsheets, graphics, tables, etc., by using other applications that are OOE compliant. Current OOE compliant applications include Xanthus Questor (spreadsheet), Xanthus Graphity (charts and graphing), Xanthus BusinessDraw (diagram drawing), Digital Tool Works EquationBuilder (equation editor), Draw++ (drawing, free with OpenWrite) and Yap++ (postScript editing, free with OpenWrite). Support for OOE is also planned in Tiffany II (image processing) from Benchmark Development and Tailor (postscript editor) from FirstClass NV. In addition, OpenWrite has a robust API that is built on top of NeXT's Distributed Objects framework and allows for programatic opening, saving and creation of OpenWrite documents. The most powerful part of the API is the capability to dynamically load a module into OpenWrite, which can be called automatically at certain events. Xanthus International AB, with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and San Diego, California, is a privately owned software development company that specializes in productivity software for the NEXTSTEP platform. Xanthus is 49% owned by the Swedish networking company Upnet (Upnod Networks AB). Upnet is one of Sweden's most successful and expanding networking companies with offices located in Sweden and Norway. The Upnet Group includes 12 companies, has a total of 151 employees and expects sales in excess of $48 million this fiscal year. -End-