EXTENSIS SHIPS PAGETOOLS FOR PAGEMAKER WITH $99 INTRODUCTORY PRICE

Set of 10 Additions For PageMaker gets high marks from testers

Portland, Ore., July 18, 1994 -- Extensis Corporation, a software company
focused on the development and marketing of application-enhancement
software, today announced that it has begun shipping its first product,
PageTools, after extensive beta testing and customer review.

PageTools is an integrated set of 10 Additions that make PageMaker 5.0 work
faster, easier, and more efficiently, and includes such functions as
previewing files, simplified printing, customizable toolbars, zooming in
on page details without leaving the current page view, setting guides, and
others.  PageTools is now shipping for Apple Macintosh computers; a
version for the Microsoft Windows operating system will be available in Q4
1994.

PageTools has been tested by numerous experienced desktop publishing users
and industry experts.  Many of their comments and recommendations have
been incorporated into the final version of the product.

PageTools is fantastic, said Darryl Gordon, academic dean for computer
graphics and desktop publishing at the Advertising Arts College in San
Diego, California.  It lets me do instantly what used to take hours, and
to customize the product the way I need it to be most efficient for me. 
It was a pleasure testing such a productive product.

Craig Cline, Vice President of Strategic Alliance and Program Development
for Seybold Seminars, said "I can't imagine any serious PageMaker user who
knows about PageTools not wanting and using it."

"PageTools helps a broader range of people more easily tap the power and
functionality of the world's most popular desktop publishing program,"
said Michelle Palmer, senior product marketing manager at Aldus
Corporation.  The quality and innovation of PageTools represent the
direction we envisioned when we built the Additions capability into
PageMaker 5.0.

"Our goal with PageTools is to provide desktop publishers more of what they
want from PageMaker, and on their own terms", said Extensis president and
founder Craig Barnes.  PageTools augments the power of PageMakerit
simplifies dealing with the operating rules of PageMaker, thereby
enhancing creativity.

PageTools value is unprecedented in the additions marketplace, providing
ten utilities for a street price of what many individual additions
normally cost.  Some PageTools components have standalone commercial
equivalents with street prices between $29$199.  Aside from the literally
hundreds of dollars in savings with PageTools, PageMaker users will
receive all of the usual benefits of buying additions from one
sourceconvenience, stability, compatibility, and consistency of
operation.

PageTools is a must-have for serious PageMaker users, said Jerry Monti,
publisher of Active Help! CD ROM for PageMaker.  If youve ever wished for
an alignment tool in PageMaker, this one feature is worth the $99 retail
price.  Ive used this tool set on just one job and its now a permanent
part of my PageMaker program.

Pricing and availability

PageTools is available now for the Macintosh, for a suggested list price of
$129 (U.S.); 5-packs are available at a suggested list price of $499.  For
a limited time, PageTools will have a special introductory price of $99
(U.S.).  A demonstration version of PageTools is also available.  All
Extensis products come with a 30 day money-back-guarantee.

PageTools is available directly from Extensis at 1-800-796-9798, or through
the Aldus Developers Cooperative at 1-800-685-3547.  PageTools requires
PageMaker 5.0 and Apple System 7.0 or higher software and is PowerPC
compatible.  

Extensis Corporation, founded in 1993, develops and markets
application-enhancement software that enables users to get more from the
software they are already using.

PageTools for Macintosh PageMaker includes:

PageAlign

Offers powerful alignment and distribution options to quickly create
complex object arrangements without using a guide, ruler, or control
palette.

PageBar

Brings powerful one-click access to nearly three hundred commands in
PageMaker through a customizable icon bar that puts the tools, commands,
hidden commands, and additions you use most, right at your fingertips. 
Many specific PageTools commands also have icons. For example align
objects left can be performed with a click of an icon so the user doesnt
even have to open the additions dialog box.

PageColors

Finds and changes the color of lines, rectangles, ovals, and textone at a
time or all at once. Similar to the find and change feature in the story
editor, PageColors quickly finds and changes colored objects in the
publication. 

PageGuides

Adds, deletes, and duplicates all types of guides in your publicationeven
duplicates and applies column guideswith unprecedented ease.

PageMover

Moves selected objects such as graphics or text to any page in the
publicationwithout leaving the current page. PageMover also moves objects
to the pasteboard and clears your pasteboard with just one click.

PagePreview

Displays a thumbnail preview of the first five pages of any PageMaker
publication in the Open publication dialog boxbefore opening itso you can
be sure youre opening the correct publication and version.

PagePrinter

Makes printing effortless with an easy-to-use print dialog box that offers
streamlined page selection, finds pages that have been edited, and
previews pages before printing.

PageRulers

Makes measuring easy with floating horizontal and vertical rulers that give
you the ability to measure more than one element at a time. PageRulers
allows you to measure objects naturallywithout continually moving
PageMakers anchored rulers.

PageThumb

Offers a floating window to quickly navigate through your publication,
without leaving the page youre currently working on. The PageThumb window
displays thumbnail previews of other pages in the publication.

PageZoom

Gives you a magnifying glass to examine a portion of your page in fine
detail (up to 800%) while still working in the current layout view.

Extensis Corp.
811 S.W. Front Avenue, Suite 630
Portland, OR 97204
PH (503) 274-2020  Fax (503) 274-0530
AOL/AppleLink:  Extensis 
Internet: extensis@aol.com

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