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September 12, 2003 -- Artifex® today announced that Macromedia, Inc. has integrated Artifex's Ghostscript® PDF and PostScript interpreter within Macromedia's Flash product. Ghostscript enables Flash users to import EPS and PDF files.

"Macromedia Flash is the leading solution for easily creating and deploying animated Web graphics," said Miles Jones, president of Artifex. "By integrating Ghostscript, Flash users can include these popular graphics formats for deployment on the Web. Macromedia used Ghostscript's high-level API in order to preserve high-level objects for conversion into Flash's internal format. This preserves the high-level font, text, and vector graphics objects from the original PostScript and PDF files."

Artifex is a leading core technology provider with the most comprehensive software solution for the embedded printing market. Artifex's Ghostscript offers all major leading Page Distribution Languages (PDLs) including Postscript, Portable Document Format (PDF), PCL5e/c, and PCLXL (together = PCL6), along with a combination of fonts compatible with most leading printers, award-winning screening technologies, and high-performance font rendering. No other software vendor offers a solution this complete. Millions of users have benefited from its ability to preview documents on the screen or provide high quality raster for hardcopy output. In addition, Artifex's Ghostscript combines the tools, information and technical support needed in order to meet the reliability and performance requirements of its OEM customers. Artifex's Ghostscript has been integrated with over 80 OEM customers' products, including: Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kyocera, Macromedia and Xerox. Artifex's Ghostscript software solution set operates on all major platforms as well as most embedded system CPU's.