SUN LICENSES FONT TECHNOLOGY AND TYPEFACES TO FRAME TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-- May 3, 1989--Sun Microsystems today announced
it has signed licensing agreements with Frame Technology Corporation
under which Sun's TypeScaler(TM) technology will be incorporated into
Frame's FrameMaker(R) 2.0 publishing software.

Frame has licensed TypeScaler, a software package that automatically
creates high quality fonts at any orientation and point size from a
single outline.  Frame plans to incorporate it into FrameMaker 2.0, due
in the fall.  This release of FrameMaker will be available for all Sun
workstations as well as Frame's OEM platforms.  Frame has also acquired
sublicensing rights for the 35 fonts used in Apple's LaserWriter II TM
printer.  These include trademarked fonts from both Linotype and
International Typeface Corporation.

FrameMaker 2.0, which was introduced in March at the Seybold
Conference, offers over 100 new features, including enhanced page and
document layout, typography and graphics capabilities.  With
TypeScaler, FrameMaker will be able to generate bitmaps "on the fly"
from resident "hinted" outlines in Sun's F3(TM) font format.  This will
provide compatibility, from trademarks to widths, with Apple
LaserWriter printers.  For its customers outputting to the popular
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, Frame plans to offer an additional
driver package that will download and print the 35 fonts in point sizes
from 4 to 400 point.

Matthew Jacobs, Frame's vice-president of engineering, sees the
technology as having significant user benefits.  "We evaluated a number
of font scaling solutions; we found that the quality of Sun's font
scaling at screen resolutions and the access to trademarked fonts to be
deciding factors in choosing TypeScaler," Jacobs said.  "In
addition, our customers will benefit from the flexibility of being able
to purchase additional fonts from a variety of suppliers later on."

TypeScaler technology will give Frame a coherent, unified font
rendering system independent of computer platform.  According to Wayne
Rosing, vice-president of Sun's Entry Systems Group, this is in keeping
with Sun's "open systems" philosophy.  "By making technical innovations
and then widely licensing the technology across all platforms, Sun
solves many of the font problems of electronic publishing customers."

Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a
leading world-wide supplier of network-based distributed computing
systems, including professional workstations, servers, and UNIX (R)
operating system and productivity software.

Frame Technology Corporation is a leading supplier of computer
publishing software.  Founded in 1986, Frame has sold over 8,000
licenses of its FrameMaker software since the product's introduction in
March 1987.  Frame markets its products worldwide through distributors,
VARs, OEMs and directly to end users.

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