Laguna Hills, CA. October 29, 1998. Allegria Software Inc. has completely revamped ForReview for UNIX. It now has a Windows desktop look and feel, and many more formats have been added along with a powerful new file conversion utility. The initial release supports HP, Sun and IBM workstations and is available for immediate shipment.

According to Robert Bruns, Allegria's President, "We have a number of large prospects and customers that have invested heavily into this platform. There are still large opportunities for a good solid view and markup product in the workstation marketplace. We see this release as increasing our leadership as a complete solution provider throughout the enterprise. Our products address the PC desktop, UNIX and web environments."

Besides a whole new look and feel, many other important items have been added to ForReview for UNIX including:

• 24-bit color support
• Support for multi-picture raster formats
• Aliasing of B/W pictures
• New API for integrating applications
• Support for ForReview as a web browser application
• New browser-based HELP system
• Y2K compliance
• Color printing supported
• Printing of a watermark
• Measurement facility
• New GUI-driven ForReview installation

Raster Vector

EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile - v1.0)

CALS (MIL-R-28002A - type I) HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language)

GIF (Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format) HPGL/2 (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language)

ICON (Microsoft Windows 3.1 Icon) PSP (Postscript)

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) CAL (CalComp 906)

PCX (Publisher's Paintbrush) ME10 (ME-10, MI-10)

PICT (Macintosh Picture Format) PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format)

TARGA(Truevision Targa)

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

XBM (X Windows Bitmap)

XPM (X Windows Pixelmap)

XWD (X Windows Dump)

BMP (Windows Bitmap)

ForReview for UNIX also offers an optional Converter Utility to transform vector to vector, vector to raster, or raster to raster formats. It supports auto-detect for file formats and supports such formatting options as orientation, packing and page size.

Input/Output Formats:

ANVIL BMP CALCOMP CALS CGM GIF GKSM

HPGL HPGL2 IGDS JPEG MI10 PCX PICT

PNG Postscript STDPLD TAPE9 TIFF VDS

XBM XPM XWD

ForReview for UNIX contains a subset of the functionality provided in the ForReview Professional for Windows. Markups created by both products are interchangeable.

The advent of ForReview for UNIX serves notice that Allegria’s ForReview product family continues to satisfy almost any user requirement for view and markup. The product supports over 20 drawing formats, including those used by major engineering CAD applications. The ForReview architecture allows for easy integration into enterprise-wide document management. The ForReview family (including ForReview for UNIX and ForReview for Windows) allows an enterprise to easily deploy one single view and markup solution across the enterprise.

Allegria Software is genuinely committed to providing a full range of enterprise-wide solutions that can stand firmly on their own or can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of any existing document/data management system. Other products in the Allegria family include gXconvert and gXnetPlot for batch file conversions and network plot management; and 3DReview for easy and inexpensive 3D CAD file visualization and markup.

To obtain additional information on Allegria and its products, or to download your free copy of

ForReview, visit the Allegria Internet website at http://www.allegria.com.

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Allegria Software products are distributed by GTS-GRAL, your enterprise-wide solutions provider.

For More Information Contact:

Robert L. Bruns, Allegria Software Inc., 714-974-2500, bbruns@allegria.com

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Jeff O'Neal, Allegria Software, 714-974-2500, joneal@allegria.com