Delivers New Levels of Precision and Power to Create Distinctive Vector Artwork Across Media

SAN JOSE, Calif.–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Illustrator® CS5, a compelling new release of its comprehensive vector graphics software that allows users to create distinctive artwork with sophisticated drawing tools, expressive lifelike brushes and a host of other every day time-savers that dramatically impact the efficiency of the software. Adobe Illustrator CS5 will be available as a stand-alone application or as a component across multiple Adobe Creative Suite® 5 editions (see separate releases).

“Illustrator is a main-stay across creative disciplines and when coupled with new tools, such as Flash Catalyst, gives graphics professionals and artists a new entry point into interactive design”

“Illustrator is a main-stay across creative disciplines and when coupled with new tools, such as Flash Catalyst, gives graphics professionals and artists a new entry point into interactive design,” said David Burkett, vice president and general manager of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “Whether you’re creating for print or digital media, Illustrator CS5 strikes the right balance of productivity enhancements and powerful new drawing and paint tools that allow you to deliver striking, high-impact designs.”

Design with Powerful Creative Tools

New stroke and paint capabilities anchor Illustrator CS5. Designing with strokes is now more powerful and flexible than ever: users can control stroke width at any point along a path, align dashes to corners and path ends, add accurately placed arrowheads directly from the Stroke panel and control how brushes stretch along a path. Painting with vectors now resembles real-world brush strokes with the new Bristle Brush, which offers breakthrough control of painting. Using this highly anticipated tool, designers can set bristle characteristics such as size, length, thickness and stiffness, as well as brush shape, bristle density and paint opacity, for simulated life-like blending.

In addition, new perspective drawing capabilities bring depth to designs. Artists can use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2- and 3- point linear perspectives and dynamically move, scale, duplicate and transform objects, including live text and symbols, in perspective.

“Adobe Illustrator CS5 offers many new features that help our team work quickly while delivering crisp, precise graphics for print, Web, interactive and mobile designs,” says Andy Hawgood, art director of Ordinary Kids, a graphics and interactive arts studio with clients including Adidas Skateboarding, Nike Biz, GAP, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Tracy Chapman and more. “For instance, I tried the variable width stroke feature in Illustrator CS5 on the nuances of a logo, and wow—designers are definitely going to want to check this feature out.”

Work Smoothly, Efficiently and Deliver Virtually Anywhere

New innovations in Illustrator CS5 encourage efficient ways of working. Multiple artboards now can be named, organized and viewed more easily. New capabilities for drawing behind and inside other objects enable fast creation of complex designs with automatic masking and layer control. Join paths with a single keystroke, scale symbols with nine-slice control and intuitively combine shapes directly on the artboard.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 allows designers to incorporate vector artwork into virtually any project and deliver it reliably across media. When designing artwork for Adobe Flash® Catalyst® CS5 (see separate press release), Adobe Flash Professional CS5 and Adobe Dreamweaver® CS5 software, Illustrator users can create vector objects precisely on the file’s pixel grid for delivering pixel-aligned artwork that keeps raster images looking sharp. Additionally, Illustrator designs can be opened in Flash Catalyst CS5, where they can be transformed into interactive components without writing code. When changes are needed, round-trip editing allows artwork to be perfected in Illustrator, while preserving the structure and interactivity added in Flash Catalyst.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 is being introduced hot on the heels of Adobe Ideas digital sketchbook for Apple® iPad™ and iPhone, which was announced earlier this month. Adobe Ideas is an ideal companion for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop® software, allowing users to sketch design concepts from anywhere, capture and store color themes from photos saved on their tablet or phone and e-mail ideas as PDF files for editing in Illustrator or Photoshop or viewing with any PDF viewer. Key features include simple vector-based drawing tools, zoom control, variable-size brushes with multi-touch control and more.

Streamline Review Processes

New tools and services integrate with Adobe Illustrator CS5 to make review processes more efficient. With Adobe CS Review, users can create and share document reviews online from within Illustrator CS5. Adobe CS Review is part of Adobe CS Live, a new set of five online services that accelerate and improve key aspects of the creative workflow. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time* and currently include: Adobe BrowserLab, Adobe CS Review, Acrobat.com, Adobe Story and SiteCatalyst® NetAverages™ from Omniture.

Pricing and Availability

Adobe Illustrator CS5 is scheduled to ship within 30 days, with availability through Adobe Authorized Resellers, the Adobe Store and Adobe Direct Sales. Estimated street price for Adobe Illustrator CS5 will be US$599. Upgrade pricing and volume licensing are available. For more detailed information about features, OS support, upgrade policies, pricing and International versions, please visit www.adobe.com/go/illustrator.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

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Government Computer News Recognizes Corel® WordPerfect® Office X5 as an Innovative Technology Product at FOSE 2010

Ottawa ON April 1, 2010 — Corel Corporation today announced that Corel® WordPerfect® Office X5, the newest version of the world’s leading alternative to Microsoft® Office, has won the Best of FOSE award in the Desktop Software Category. Awarded by Government Computer News (GCN), the Best of FOSE awards program recognizes outstanding and innovative IT products for government exhibited during the annual FOSE exhibition.

News Image“More than ever, government departments are looking for tools that enable them to complete projects on time and on budget,” said John Breeden, Lab Director for GCN.“WordPerfect Office X5 adds functionality that’s critical for government departments. This product stands out from the competition – it’s clear that Corel truly understands the government market and its needs.”

More than 65 companies submitted a total of nearly 100 new products for consideration during this year’s competition. All together, 15 companies were recognized across a broad range of categories.

GCN’s editors and technology analysts reviewed the new products and chose the winners based on four criteria: innovation; usability/applicability to government; relative performance based on specifications; and value.

“We are honored to win a GCN Best of FOSE award, which represents strong validation of the latest version of WordPerfect Office X5, which we have only just released,” said Jason Larock, Director of Product Management, Office Productivity for Corel. “The specific needs of government departments are paramount in planning new features and functionality, and WordPerfect Office X5 incorporates many of the requirements that our government clients have requested of us. We look forward to continued work with our government customers to ensure we deliver an office productivity solution that lets them work efficiently and effectively.”

Corel WordPerfect Office X5 delivers enhanced online collaboration tools, a new integrated email client and expanded file format support. The latest version of WordPerfect Office has been designed to offer users even greater flexibility in how they work, both online and offline. For more information about WordPerfect Office X5, or to download a fully-functional, free trial, visit www.corel.com/wordperfect.

About Government Computer News (1105 Government Information Group)
1105 Government Information Group is the leading provider of integrated information and media for the government information technology market. Our comprehensive portfolio of print, online, event, custom media and research products distinctively serves the information needs of the government IT buying team—agency executives, program managers, IT managers and systems integrators—across all segments of federal, state and local government. Flagship news and information brands include Defense Systems, Federal Computer Week, FEND, GCN, and Washington Technology. Flagship events include the Federal 100, FOSE, GCN Gala, GovSec, U.S. Law and a series of conferences focused on collaboration, networking and education. www.1105govinfo.com

About Corel
Corel is one of the world’s top software companies with more than 100 million active users in over 75 countries. We develop software that helps people express their ideas and share their stories in more exciting, creative and persuasive ways. Through the years, we’ve built a reputation for delivering innovative, trusted products that are easy to learn and use, helping people achieve new levels of productivity. The industry has responded with hundreds of awards for software innovation, design and value.

Our award-winning product portfolio includes some of the world’s most widely recognized and popular software brands, including CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, Corel® Painter™, Corel DESIGNER® Technical Suite, Corel® PaintShop Photo®, Corel® VideoStudio®, Corel® WinDVD®, Corel® WordPerfect® Office, WinZip® and Corel® Digital Studio™.

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SINGAPORE–PayPal and China UnionPay, China’s bankcard association, today announced that China UnionPay (CUP) card members will be able to use PayPal to shop online, representing a new opportunity for international retailers to sell to a large base of Chinese customers who, combined, hold 2.1 billion CUP cards.

“PayPal’s partnership with China UnionPay removes an important friction point that exists across borders, and we are thrilled to eliminate the payments barrier so merchants can welcome millions of new Chinese customers to their sites.”

“After years of being the export hub for the world, today marks the day that China is open for business as an import e-commerce market,” said Scott Thompson, president of PayPal. “PayPal’s partnership with China UnionPay removes an important friction point that exists across borders, and we are thrilled to eliminate the payments barrier so merchants can welcome millions of new Chinese customers to their sites.”

Chinese consumers have more disposable income than ever before and are starting to look for the best products the world has to offer. CUP card members will be able to use PayPal in the third quarter of 2010. This gives merchants the opportunity to spend the coming months preparing their Web stores for Chinese consumers, including adding Chinese translation and fast, cost effective shipping methods.

About China UnionPay

China UnionPay, established in 2002, is the national bankcard association in China. As the pivotal role of China’s bankcard industry, China UnionPay is responsible for operating unified inter-bank clearing and settlement system in China and developing the international acceptance network for CUP card. By collaborating with various parties, China UnionPay has greatly boosted the development of China’s bankcard industry.

To date, the total number of CUP card issued worldwide has exceeded 2.1 billion; in 2009, the number of CUP card inter-bank transactions reached 7 billion with an amount of USD 1.1 trillion; the overall merchants, POS terminals and ATMs reached 2.13 million, 2.88 million and 930 thousand respectively. China UnionPay has also established partnership with around 400 financial institutions all over the world.

As of now, CUP card international acceptance network has been extended to 90 countries and regions. Over 10 of them, including Japan, Korea, Singapore, Russia, Mongolia etc, have issued CUP card.

Relying on China, the world’s most vibrant emerging economy and the world’s largest cardholder group, China UnionPay not only provides quality, secure and efficient payment services for hundreds of millions of cardholders all over the world, but also brings brand new choices and values for partners as well as energy and opportunities for the global bankcard industry.

China UnionPay will further enhance international cooperation in the future, work hand in hand with partners to achieve mutual development and success, to build UnionPay into a major international bankcard brand with global influence, and to make greater contribution to the overall prosperity of the global bankcard industry.

About PayPal

PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. The service allows members to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. With more than 81 million active accounts in 190 markets and 24 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce. PayPal is an eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) company and is made up of three leading online payment services: the PayPal global payment service, the Payflow Gateway and Bill Me Later. The company’s open payment platform, PayPal X, allows developers to build innovative payment applications on multiple platforms and devices. More information about the company can be found at https://www.paypal.com.

PayPal is headquartered in San Jose, California and its international headquarters is located in Singapore.