St. Louis, Missouri, USA
May 5, 2003

Competing PostScript and XSL-FO technologies now supported in single Java Server

Dynalivery adds Extended Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) Input to the Saffron Document Server

Dynalivery announced today the addition of an XSL-FO input module to the Saffron Document Server. Saffron acts as a "virtual printer" implemented as an all-Java server. It reads documents in either Postscript or now XSL-FO intermediate languages, optionally concatenates them, and then translates them to very high quality PDF, HTML, SVG, RTF, JPEG, or PNG formats for delivery over the Internet.

A typical use of Saffron would be to generate personalized, confidential financial documents at high concurrencies of about 100,000 PDF pages per day and electronically deliver to them to the single consumers. These documents might originate in a document producer based on proprietary file formats (such as Crystal Reports .rpt) and use PostScript as the intermediate format via a printer driver.

With today's announcement, these documents may now originate in most document producers that:

1) Uses XML to describe document (or report) templates; and
2) May incorporate a standard Extended Stylesheet Transform (XSLT); and
3) With the availability of an appropriate stylesheet, generates XSL-FO.

Software with this architecture available today includes Altova XMLSPY and open source JEDIT. Perhaps more interesting, upcoming software that will meet these criteria this year include Microsoft Word 11, Sun StarOffice, and OpenOffice.org.

Dynalivery's XSL-FO support is based on Apache FOP 0.20.5 open source software with several extensions to meet the special formatting requirements of database reporting users, including custom tags for charts and images, as well as the "keep together within block" property.

Saffron runs inside a Sun Java Run-Time Environment (JRE) 1.4 and is compatible with leading web/portal application servers such as BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, and open source JBoss. Customers may remotely control Saffron via either a Java/CORBA API or Web Services for both .net and Java applications.

The Saffron Document Server is unique in its support for electronic printing from both proprietary and open (XML) formats, as well as it convenient integration with Java and Microsoft market tools.

The list price of the Saffron Document is USD 5000 per processor with volume discount and partner discounts available. A free trial edition is available to qualified customers at: http://www.dynalivery.com/products/saffron/SaffronProject.html

ABOUT DYNALIVERY
Dynalivery ("Dynamic" + "Delivery") develops and sells enterprise software for electronic document printing and management, including reports. Dynalivery's strategy is to adapt market-leading desktop software to run as a server over the internet so that customers may leverage their existing skills.

Dynalivery's products are used by customers in 11 countries and include many of the world's leading financial institutions.

For more information, please refer to our web site at http://www.dynalivery.com or Saffron page at http://www.dynalivery.com/products/saffron/saffron.html. Alternately, please contact Rod Zimmerman, President at Dynalivery Corporation, 320 WestPort Plaza Dr., Suite 205, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 63146, Tel. (314) 205-8995, x12.

ART / ILLUSTRATIONS:
Saffron Document Server Architecture Diagram:
http://www.dynalivery.com/products/saffron/SaffronWorkGroup_2003_architecture_VLG.jpg

Short screencam movie showing the manual conversion of a Crystal Report sample to XML:
http://www.dynalivery.com/demos/CreatingStylesheet.exe

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Crystal Reports is a trademark of Seagate Software Information Management Group Holdings, Inc.
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