PRESS RELEASE

Avenza Global Technologies Corp., of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, the developers of MAPublisher&Mac226;, are pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher&Mac226; Version 3.5 for Macromedia FreeHand 8 for the Microsoft Window 95/98 and NT operating platforms. Shipping will begin on May 12, 1999.

MAPublisher is a suite of GIS and cartographic plug-in tools that allows the import of top GIS and CAD file formats into high-end graphics and illustration environments with all the attribute databases intact and ready to use.

Included in this suite of powerful mapping filters are import tools, projection editors, legend tools, labeling tools, database management tools and many others comprising a complete cartographic solution.

New MAPublisher Version 3.5 for FreeHand/Windows includes the following features:

• Improved file import so that you can more effectively import common GIS file formats (ARC/INFO Generate, ArcView Shapefile, MapInfo MID/MIF, AutoCAD DXF, and USGS DLG and SDTS formats) into the vector graphics environment with all database attributes intact.
• Table Management tools that allow the import of external database tables for merging and linking to existing map layers as well as creation, editing and deletion of separate data tables.
• Automated raster image registration.
• Automated labeling based upon attribute data.
• Export to MapInfo MID/MIF and ArcView Shapefile formats.
• Map projection and scale transformations (over 100 projections and 40 ellipsoids available).
• Automated grid and scale bar generation.
• Export to intelligent, data-rich PDF containing searchable and queriable data tables.
• Search, query and select by data attribute.
• Joining of vectors based on simple or attribute values.
• Automated legend creation based upon attribute data that enables automated legend value assignment for multiple legend elements based on either unique values or a user-controlled value range.
• Automated scale conversion from native co-ordinate system to various traditional scales.
• Improved pdfPLUS (formerly JAMBuddy) export.

MAPublisher Version 3.5 is available at $299 for a limited time only, after which it will be available at the regular price of $495.

Avenza, an Ontario Chamber of Commerce business achievement award winner, is a publicly traded Canadian company (CDN, Toronto - AVZA). Avenza and its subsidiaries are developers and marketers of business and geographic communications software, focusing on the desktop mapping, Internet and Intranet object search, and GPS (Global Positioning Systems) markets. The company is a third-party developer for Macromedia Inc. (NASDAQ - MACR) and Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ -ADBE) of California.

For further information please contact Avenza at 905-639-3330, info@avenza.com or visit the company’s website at http://www.avenza.com