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CORDA® Announces Highwire™, an Enterprise HTML to PDF Generation Solution

Highwire fills gap in marketplace to provide large-scale, on-demand, server-based PDF's to help organizations reduce cost while providing broader access to information

Lindon, Utah-March 8, 2004- CORDA Technologies Inc., the leading provider of innovative data presentation solutions, announced the launch of Highwire™, a server-based HTML to PDF generation solution that allows companies to quickly and easily convert HTML or XHTML Web pages into Portable Document Format (PDF) documents that retain on-screen formatting.

Highwire is unique in the PDF generation world-It not only produces PDF documents that look visually appealing when printed, but also reformats documents that were designed for the Web so they fit within the confines of the printed page.

Neal Williams, chief executive of Corda Technologies said, "It might be a surprise to some people that there are very few solutions in today's market that can generate PDF documents from the format the Internet is based on, HTML or XHTML. Most of these tools require users to translate information into proprietary formats that are difficult to use because they cannot be viewed in a browser or desktop application. Getting information into these proprietary formats requires programmers to develop time-consuming and frustrating applications that often produce documents that look unimpressive compared to their Web counterparts."

Williams continued, "Anyone who has printed documents of Web pages directly from a browser knows they are often incomplete. For instance, page breaks typically occur at inconvenient places, table headers disappear after the first page, and worst of all, information is cut off because tables and images are wider than the printed page. This problem becomes history with Highwire. Not only does Highwire produce PDF documents that preserve the HTML look and feel when printed, but it also reformats documents that were designed for the Web so they look great on the printed page. This makes it a perfect solution for businesses wishing to provide customers and clients with an easy way to print Web documents such as financial statements, sales receipts, itineraries and online articles or to electronically archive images of Web documents."

By allowing users to convert HTML/XHTML documents to PDF, Highwire streamlines the document generation process. Instead of having to develop one application to produce Web pages and another application to produce PDF documents, users can produce both with the same application. And the PDF documents will look as well-designed and colorful as their Web pages.

About CORDA Technologies

Corda Technologies is the global leader in innovative data presentation solutions. In addition to HTML to PDF conversion solutions, Corda's family of tools and services are the leading choice for fast, flexible, and scalable interactive graphs and maps. It is the first and only company to provide solutions that automatically create accessible, Section 508 compliant charts, graphs, maps, and PDF documents with descriptive text. Corda's solutions display data as visual images allowing customers to explore relationships, perform analysis, and more easily understand their data. For more information, please visit www.corda.com.

Company Contact:
CORDA Technologies
David Vandagriff
801 805-9415
801 805-9405 fax
dvan@corda.com

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801 226 3883 fax
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