DRI ANNOUNCES GEM ARTLINE

Monterey, CA -- Digital Research, Inc. of Monterey, California and CCP
Software in Germany have announced GEM Artline -- a desktop publishing
solution for creating intricate graphic effects, many of which were
previously impossible with PC-based computer systems and printers
without high-level page description languages.

GEM Artline creates eye-catching text effects needed for headlines,
logos and letterheads as well as illustrations which match the quality
of designer-created artwork. GEM Artline provides a comprehensive and
extremely powerful set of drawing tools. A design can be created by
freehand drawing or by simply tracing a scanned image presented on the
screen. Drawings and text can be extensively modified and enhanced --
copied, scaled, skewed, merged with other elements, colored, shaded,
rotated and mirrored.

Advanced high-speed Bezier curve drawing and smoothing algorithms are
supported to produce extremely intricate objects. Provisions are
provided for breaking Bezier curves and merging multiple objects
together. With Gem Artline, the curve fit and edit functions allow
designers to operate on and edit the points, tangents, and gradients of
the whole curve or a portion of the curve.

GEM Artline includes a library of ready-made clip art and provides a
choice of eight type styles. GEM Artlines Symbol file previewer allows
the designer to display and select clip art files from the drawing
screen. It also includes the Bitstream Installation Kit which provides
an additional typeface -- Charter, and opens access to an extensive
range of quality typefaces via Bitstream Fontware packs.

GEM Artline acts as a graphic workbench, supporting the two key
elements of graphic design -- typography and drawing. Typography is the
art and craft of producing visually exciting text and headlines on a
page. GEM Artline's high-quality typefaces can be treated as drawing
objects, allowing effects such as rotation, skewing, shadowing,
patterning and scaling to any size. Typefaces from 1 to 999 point are
supported.

Images can be imported from popular painting and scanning programs and
turned into object-oriented graphics. GEM Artline allows graphics to be
saved in formats used with Aldus PageMaker, Xerox Ventura Publisher,
GEM Desktop Publisher and others.

Image file formats, including .IMG, .PCX, and TIFF are fully supported.
Both .GEM and .EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) object-oriented formats
are supported. Output from GEM Artline is supported by 35mm slide
services such as MagiCorp which offer 4000 line slide resolution. GEM
Artline files are resolution independent -- the entire range of output
devices from dot matrix printers to high resolution image setters are
fully supported.

GEM Artline requires 640K memory and hard disk and mouse or graphic
sketchpad. All screen and printer devices for the GEM environment are
supported. High-level page description languages such as PostScript are
not required to print GEM Artline files.

Gem Artline runs on PC DOS, MS DOS version 3.0 or higher, DR DOS and
Concurrent DOS operating environments. Expanded memory (EMS or EEMS) is
required to provide image tracing and enhanced font and image
buffering. Minimum expanded memory to use these features is 512K.

GEM Artline was developed by CCP Software in conjunction with Digital
Reasearch. For more information, contact Digital Research Inc. at Box
DRI, Monterey, CA 93942 or telephone (408) 649-3896.