Novell Announces Free Envoy Viewer

Users can use unlimited copies of the Envoy Viewer without fees or royalties

OREM, Utah -- June 5, 1995 -- Novell, Inc. today announced that its Envoy Viewer is now available free from its home page on the World Wide Web, or from on-line services including CompuServe and SpaceWorks. The Envoy Viewer is a full-featured portable document viewer which allows users to easily distribute electronic information--regardless of application or platform--for no additional fees or royalties. The Envoy Viewer is the same viewer that is included in the Envoy retail package.

"Our competitors offer a variety of viewers with a variety of royalties and fees," said David Harkness, product marketing director for Novell's electronic publishing tools. "With the Envoy Viewer, Novell offers one viewing solution with no royalties or fees."

"Novell is right on with its viewer distribution strategy for Envoy," said Jeff Tarter, publisher of Soft*letter, a leading software industry newsletter. "Publishers don't want to hassle with royalties or fees, they just want to freely distribute their content as they wish."

Envoy consists of two parts: a document publisher and a document viewer. While only Envoy owners can publish an Envoy document, the viewer is available to anyone to view Envoy documents and send feedback using the annotation, highlighting and bookmarking features. Recipients using the Envoy Viewer can view Envoy documents with the original layout, fonts, graphics and color intact, regardless of the application used to create the document. The Envoy Viewer does not have to be bound to a file and can open multiple Envoy documents.

Envoy files are compact--generally much smaller than the original application files--and often about half the size of files created by competing products. Because of the Envoy Viewer's compact design, users can conserve space on LAN servers, CD-ROMS or even floppy disks. The full Envoy package is also compact, requiring only 1M of hard disk space and 600K of RAM, and runs on virtually all current Windows or Macintosh systems.

The Envoy viewer is available from the Novell home page at http://www.novell.com, from CompuServe on the GO WPFILES forum (Library 11, filename: edvwin.exe) or from the customer support library on SpaceWorks.