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Bill
Gould Informative Graphics Enables Document Publishing For Viewing In The Macromedia Flash Player By Licensing Blue Pacific Software Source Code Technology Will Enable Net-It™ Central To Publish Documents For Viewing By More Than 500 Million Browsers with the Macromedia Flash Player PHOENIX, Arizona - March 10, 2003 — Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a leader in Web-document and collaboration technology, announced today that IGC has obtained a source code license from Blue Pacific Software, enabling the publishing of documents to Macromedia’s Flash format. The company plans to enhance the technology and integrate it into a future release of its Web-based publishing solutions, starting with Net-It Central. Net-It Central makes it very easy to publish document files created in virtually any Windows™ application to an existing intranet or corporate portal. Blue Pacific’s technology creates Flash documents from any Windows desktop application, allowing content to be published to more than 500 million Web browsers where the Flash player is currently in use. Flash documents can be preloaded and streamed to a client browser, greatly reducing delay and creating the best possible user experience - even on low bandwidth connections. Documents can be interactively viewed by page number, zoomed and panned, and printed with high fidelity. Blue Pacific’s technology also supports double-byte international languages through the use of Unicode, permitting documents to be published in a broad range of languages. Net-It Central automates document publishing to intranets by processing files that are simply dropped into a designated directory or directory tree. Its simplicity makes it usable by anyone, so content stays fresh and current, and the company intranet actually gets used. Net-It Central utilizes document libraries (directories) and features such as document indexing, content expiration, and an “I have read this” user sign-off function. “We’re very glad to see Blue Pacific’s technology being put to such good use – Flash Printer is a perfect fit for Informative Graphics’ rich document solutions. I believe our significant expertise on the Flash format will allow IGC to seamlessly integrate the technology and enhance their document publishing solutions,” said Jorge Diogo, CEO at Blue Pacific. “We are very pleased that IGC quickly recognized the potential of Flash publishing for corporate document distribution.” “Our vision is all about putting content in motion to downstream users - in short, Web publishing and collaboration,” said Gary Heath, CEO at IGC. “Using Flash as a delivery mechanism for document content is a very ground-breaking and makes great sense given how ubiquitous Flash is and how well it works. Blue Pacific’s innovative technology is of strategic importance for our product plans and will serve to broaden Net-It Central’s market position. This technology acquisition, once enhanced and integrated, will enable Net-It Central customers to publish public documents to the Internet as well as their own corporate intranets. For many documents, the Flash player is a better choice than other, bulkier alternatives,” he added. About Blue Pacific Software Blue Pacific Software’s mission is to create innovative technology that allows customers to leverage the power of the universal Flash format. From powerful Web server tools like the Flash Turbine product range for dynamic Flash generation, to groundbreaking desktop tools like Flash Printer and Turbine Video Encoder, Blue Pacific prides itself on staying at the cutting edge of multimedia technology. Headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, Blue Pacific is available on the Internet at www.blue-pacific.com. About Informative Graphics Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), founded in 1990, is a leading developer of commercial software products for Web publishing, visualization, and collaboration. IGC products are renowned for their cost-saving value, ease-of-use, features, and scalability. With its products deployed by hundreds of corporations, OEM partners, and service providers worldwide, IGC is an international company maintaining offices in the United States and Europe, as well as key distribution partners in Japan, Asia and Latin America. The company maintains a Web site at www.infograph.com. ### Note
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