FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

All-in-One Page Layout, Spreadsheet and Drawing Features Make RagTime 5 the
"Swiss Army Knife" of Business Publishing and a MS Office Assassin!

Clearwater, FL -- October 12, 1999 /Xpress Press/ -- ComGrafix, Inc.
announces the U.S. release of RagTime 5.0 for Windows and Macintosh.
RagTime is the "Swiss Army Knife" of office software. It is the only
business publishing application that allows users to create spreadsheets,
annual reports; generate catalogues and price lists; perform calculations,
and display them in graphical form using one program. Over 250,000 users
worldwide rely on RagTime for professional business publishing.

RagTime's key features include seamless integration of spreadsheet data
with page layout templates (no importing or cut and pasting). Intelligent
templates help simplify repetitive tasks and share information
company-wide. Mail merge features allow users to personalize documents for
each individual recipient.

RagTime is also a fully loaded DTP toolbox allowing for free positioning of
all elements on a page including rotation of objects, free-form text flows,
color selection with optional CMYK support and compatibility with standard
picture formats such as EPSF, TIFF, JPEG and more.

RagTime features pinpoint page positioning including paragraph and font
style sheets that can read Excel tables. It has more than 200 calculation
and evaluation functions. When the user changes numbers or calculations,
pages automatically update themselves. Layouts calculate discount schedules
or update conditions according to customer categories. 3-D spreadsheets
include options for 16,000 rows, columns and planes. A full range of
typographic options is also available.

A Graphs gallery includes wide selection of style sheets; 2-D and 3-D view
point and light point graphs; line, pie and XYZ (scatter) graphs, bubble
and polar charts and combinations.

Sophisticated text handling includes flow within and around free forms,
baseline grids and variable units of measure, non-printing test for
comments, small caps, kerning capabilities and more. An optional CD-ROM
includes hyphenation and spell checkers for 12 additional languages.

RagTime offers direct scanning via Photoshop Plugins or TWAIN. Pictures can
be cropped, scaled, rotated or distorted.

What the press say about RagTime...

"RagTime has a blend of functionality that covers business needs better
than any integrated application I know. It is QuarkXPress with Word, Excel
and Canvas embedded within. However, the big pay back is that you can use
RagTime for virtually every need in the office." -- Paul Stary, Video
Engineering

System Requirements

Windows

486-compatible instruction set running Windows 95 with 24 MB RAM, 30 MB
free hard disk Space, and a CD-ROM drive. Or, pentium processor running
Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4 with 32 MB Ram, 65 MB free hard disk
space, and a CD-ROM drive.

Macintosh

Power Macintosh running Mac OS 7.1.2 with 16 MB RAM, 30 MB free hard disk
space, and a CD-ROM Drive. Or, Power Macintosh running Mac OS 8 with 32 MB
RAM, 73 MB free hard disk space, and a CD-ROM drive.

Pricing:

$495-$695 for single copy. $395 ea for 5 pack. Site licenses available.

Online brochure:

ftp://ftp.comgrafix.com/RagTime_5_Brochure.pdf

http://www.comgrafix.com/RagTime/RagTime.html