Delrina Announces Cure for Hatred of Business Forms

PerForm For Windows 3.0 Enables Individuals and Small Businesses without
Any Forms Design Experience to Create and Use Better Business Forms
Quickly and Easily

COMDEX FALL +94, BOOTH S3538 -- November 14, 1994 -- Delrina Corporation
(NASDAQ:DENAF, TSE:DC), the world's leader in PC forms software, today
announced PerForm For Windows 3.0, a new forms package that lets users
create and use, "intelligent," professional-looking, business forms
quickly and easily. PerForm for Windows is aimed at individual users in
small businesses, home offices, and the corporate environment where forms
are designed, filled in and printed as a necessary requirement of doing
business. The task of creating and using forms is made quick and easy in
PerForm for Windows through four key innovations in the product:

1) PerForm includes DelrinaExperts (like Microsoft Wizards), which create
"intelligent," professional-looking, and usable forms automatically for
the user.

2) PerForm has extensive on-line "help demonstrations" that quickly teach
the user how to apply and use its powerful set of design tools.

3) PerForm allows users to move beyond designing forms for printing,
allowing them to enter and retain data direct in their forms, without any
database understanding or experience.

4) PerForm includes all the latest in usability advancements such as
ToolTips, dialogs using Tabs, and "tear away" tool bars that are also
completely customizable.

Although a forms product is the best tool for creating and using electronic
forms, packages such as Delrina's own FormFlowa product, have evolved to
meet high-end, workgroup/workflow, enterprise requirements, and may be too
sophisticated for an individual's or small business user+s needs. As a
result, users have resorted to using their word processor, spreadsheet,
desktop publishing package, drawing program or other non-forms software to
create and use common business forms. While such packages can be used for
forms, such packages fall short in forms design flexibility, ease-of-use,
and the ability to retain, sort, manage and print forms data. PerForm for
Windows has been designed to meet the needs of individual users for a
powerful forms tool that is quick and easy to use, enabling them to create
forms such as invoices, inter office memos, time sheets, and the myriad of
rogue forms used in business today.

Automatic Forms Creation

One of the biggest hurdles users have in creating a form for use is knowing
where to start. A user has to have a good idea of what the form and its
function will be before they put cursor to screen. PerForm includes
DelrinaExperts, which allows the user to quickly create a new usable form,
customized for his particular needs, based on the answers to a few simple
questions. The user selects from various design styles and form components
and is given previews of the final result. The user does not have to learn
how to use any of PerForm+s powerful tools, to get started, the form is
automatically created for him. DelrinaExperts go beyond predesigned forms
or templates because even predesigned forms require some modification --
like adding the user+s own logo and address on the form header or building
a tax calculation with the right values for their area -- which means the
user would have to learn the program to get started using forms. PerForm
includes DelrinaExperts for over 30 forms categories from invoices to
inter office memos.

Kevin Lee, a PerForm beta tester with Regan Agency Inc., an insurance
agency in Babylon, NY, agrees, "DelrinaExperts are terrific, by making the
design of forms the easiest I+ve seen. PerForm guides you nicely through
the process of producing high quality, usable business forms."

"How Do I...?" Help Demos

PerForm for Windows includes a new way to find help about the objects that
make up a form and how to use its powerful design tools. Under the Help
menu, users will find an item entitled Parts of a Form, which displays a
sample invoice form with underlying help demonstrations linked to all the
components that make up the form. For example, the user can click on the
SubTotal field (which sums a column of numbers), and get a visual
demonstration of how the field is created and the calculation is built.
The "How Do I ....?" help demos teach the user how to employ PerForm's
powerful design tools, which include boxes, lines, circles, text boxes,
fillable fields and tables, over 60 different spreadsheet-like functions
and calculations, and the ability to import images from 10 different
industry standard graphic formats. PerForm also includes an Object
Library, so users can store and reuse any form object (like a telephone
field that automatically formats the number with parentheses around the
area code and inserts the dash) in other forms.

Databases with Programming

PerForm lets users fill in their forms on the computer and save the data
(or information) they enter on the form for later search and retrieval.
Unlike other forms products, PerForm does not create an external database,
but retains the information a user enters directly within the form, stored
as multiple records. Users can do simple or compound (i.e. multi-field)
searches for specific information without having to learn complex search
rules or procedures. Users can print all the forms (i.e. records) or only
those identified by the search criteria. For instance, a user can enter
all the invoices for his business and then with one simple command, print
the completed invoices for mailing. PerForm provides all the benefits of
true databasing, but eliminates the need for the user to understand and
deal with external databases. The program does allow the data to be
exported to an ASCII or dBase file for use in other applications. In
addition, PerForm directly supports Delrina WinFax, so users can directly
fax forms with the current data directly from within PerForm.

"Anyone who has tried to use products like Word or Excel to design a form
have been frustrated by the lack of forms creation tools and the
difficulty in storing information for re-use" added Eric Stevens, Forms
Marketing Manager at Delrina. "PerForm delivers professional looking forms
within minutes of installing the program, with the ability to re-use forms
data with other applications."

Usability Advancements

PerForm for Windows includes all the latest in usability advancements. It
has ToolTips, which are helpful messages that automatically pop up when
the user places their mouse cursor over a tool or command button. Further,
all of the configuration options for a form object (such as a fillable
field) are organized in Tab dialogs, enabling the user to quickly move
through various dialogs without having to hunt for a particular function
through several nested layers or menus. Finally, PerForm allows the user
to completely customize their design and filling environments by
relocating the tool bars anywhere on the screen and changing any of the
buttons on the tool bars.

"This new offering further strengthens our position as the leader in the
electronic forms market," said Mark Skapinker Delrina President. "Delrina
already markets FormFlow which provides sophisticated forms creation and
workflow routing tools for enterprises. PerForm for Windows is focused
completely at the broad range of individual users who need a quick and
easy way to design and fill in forms."

Market Opportunity

Among PerForm+s target market is the small business user. "There are over
20 million small businesses in the U.S., and seventy percent of these
businesses are one-person operations," said Raymond Boggs, director of
Small Business/SOHO Research, at BIS Strategic Decisions, in Norwell, MA.
"Many could benefit from Delrina's entry level, "print-on-demand" forms
solution." According market research conducted by BIS, the entry level
segment of the electronic forms market is expected to grow 300%, reaching
U.S. $160 million by 1996.

System Requirements, Pricing and Availability

PerForm for Windows requires Microsoft Windows 3.1, 4 megabytes of RAM, and
6 megabytes of hard disk storage. The retail price is $129 ($174.99 Cdn)
and will be available before December 1994 in computer retail and office
supply stores. The package also includes a $20 ($25 Cdn) rebate for
customers currently using any other software product, such as a word
processor or spreadsheet, to create forms.

Founded in June 1988, Delrina Corporation is a high-profile Canadian
success story and ranked among the fastest growing software companies in
North America. Delrina+s revenues have more than doubled each year, during
the last two years, achieving annual revenues of Cdn $102 million for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1994. Delrina develops, markets and supports
PC-based software products and services for the fax and data
communications, electronic forms processing and consumer software markets.
The Company employs more than 550 people with headquarters in Toronto,
Canada, and offices in San Jose, CA; Washington, DC; Kirkland, WA; the
U.K.; France; and Germany. Delrina can be contacted at 1-800-268-6082.

Delrina Corp
895 Don Mills, 500-2 Park Center
Toronto, Ontario M3C 1W3 CANADA
416-441-3676,  fax 416-441-0774

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