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What's Included?

In addition to the four key applications, Corel DESIGNER 12,
Corel PHOTO-PAINT(R) 12, CorelTRACE(TM) 12, and Corel CAPTURE(TM) 12,
Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 includes: Microsoft Visual Basic
for Applications 6.

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2, 1729; the front of the
1733 edition of "Poor Richard's Almanack"; and a five-pound currency note
printed by Franklin in 1760.

B. The Postal Service delivers more than half of the world's mail volume -
- some 212 billion letters, advertisements, periodicals and packages a year --
and serves seven and a half million customers each day at its 37,000 retail
locations nationwide.

Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 comprises the following: Corel
DESIGNER 12 for precise technical illustration and layout; Corel
PHOTO-PAINT (R) 12 for professional image editing; CorelTRACE(TM) 12
to convert bitmaps and legacy paper documents into vector graphics;
and Corel CAPTURE(TM) 12 to create screen captures, an integral
component of many technical documents. As a result, the user can interact with data and objects
easily, speeding the creation of complex technical illustrations. what a powerful tool!" said Cathy Thayer,
Technical Illustrator at Mercury Marine. "Version 12 will make our
technical writing process more productive and enable us to ensure a
great customer experience by providing high-quality product manuals
and documentation. All other product, font and company names and logos are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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25 through Oct.
Free Franklin. Starting next month, the full suite will
be available for purchase through Corel and its reseller partners.

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Benjamin Franklin, Printer
The image of the stamp honoring Franklin as a printer includes a portrait
of him in a printer's smock by illustrator Michael Dooling; a copy of the
Pennsylvania Gazette dated Sept.com/designer.
Corel's flagship products include the CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite,
the WordPerfect (R) Office Suite, the Corel Painter(TM)
Natural-Media(R) painting and illustration software, Corel DESIGNER
Technical Suite, and the Paint Shop(TM) Family of digital photography
and image-editing software.

Corel was acquired by San Francisco-based Vector Capital in
August 2003, and since that time, has both re-established growth for
its flagship product lines and achieved multiple consecutive quarters
of corporate profitability.

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The suite is
universally compatible, supporting more than 75 file formats
including AutoCAD(R) 2004, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Adobe(R)
Illustrator (R), CorelDRAW(R), TIFF, and many more. With DESIGNER's drawing
and callout tools, as well as its versatility in working with many
different file formats, it has become an essential part of our
graphic creation process.

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Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
The stamp image honoring Franklin as a scientist includes a whimsical
19th-century Currier and Ives lithograph depicting Franklin and his son
performing the legendary electricity experiment with a kite; a page from
Franklin's 1769 volume "Experiments and Observations on Electricity" depicting
water spouts and a "magic square"; a schematic drawing of Franklin's "three-
wheeled clock" from the late 18th-century book "Select Mechanical Exercises"
by James Ferguson; and a depiction of Franklin at a writing desk from a mural
by Charles Elliott Mills at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in
Boston, MA."

Benjamin Franklin, Statesman
The stamp honoring Franklin as a statesman includes a detail from John
Trumbull's famous painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence,
painted between 1786 and 1819; a copy of Franklin's 1754 "Join or Die"
political cartoon urging colonial unity; the top of a printed copy of the
Declaration of Independence; a pastel portrait of Franklin by Joseph-Siffred
Duplessis, painted during the 1780s; and the French side of the 1778 Treaty of
Alliance with France, which was negotiated and signed by Franklin. Corel
DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 is designed specifically to make technical
illustrators more productive, enabling them to create technical
documentation, instructional manuals, and maintenance references with
exceptional precision and speed.com/designer

Offering an exceptional price/performance ratio and superior ease
of use, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 was created for
professional illustrators working in the manufacturing , automotive,
aerospace, defense, landscaping, and apparel industries.com

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His
observations and experiments in areas such as electricity and
meteorology resulted in interesting inventions, including a heating
stove, the lightning rod and an early electrical battery.corel.

- Powerful language support - Dynamic language switching allows
multiple language versions to be installed on a single machine.

- Industry-standard templates and symbols - Industry-standard
templates and an extensive set of reusable symbols for
manufacturing, electrical, and architectural requirements make
users more efficient by saving them from having to start every
project from scratch.

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The suite offers customers exclusive high-powered
functionality not available in any competing application in its
price point.

Suggested retail pricing (US) for Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite
12 is $699 for full product and $299 for the upgrade. Upgrade pricing is open to customers who
own the following software applications: Corel DESIGNER versions 9
and 10, Micrografx DESIGNER (any version), Micrografx/iGrafx(R)
Business, Micrografx/iGrafx (R) FlowCharter(R), Micrografx Picture
Publisher(R), Microsoft Visio(R), Autodesk AutoCAD LT(R), and
ACD(TM)/Deneba(TM) Canvas(TM).

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By offering integrated professional
illustration, photo editing , and bitmap to vector conversion
applications together in one package, we know customers will be very
impressed by this complete solution," said Nick Davies, Corel's
General Manager Graphics . The Company is renowned for its
powerful software portfolio that combines innovative photo editing
and graphics creation, vector-illustration, and technical-graphics
applications along with office and personal productivity solutions. Founded in 1985, Corel is headquartered
in Ottawa, Canada.

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* Text across the bottom of the stamp reads "B.

Since 1775, the Postal Service and its predecessor, the Post Office
Department, has connected friends, families, neighbors and businesses by mail.

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He marked postage-free letters with his unique personal signature: "B.

"This suite is unique because it has been created specifically
for technical illustration - distinct from other offerings that are
simply re-purposed CAD, flowcharting, or creative graphics
applications . For more information, please visit www.

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U.S. Postal Service Commemorates Benjamin Franklin's 300th Birthday by Issuing Educational Stamps This Spring

The Postal Service receives no
taxpayer dollars for routine operations, but derives its operating revenues
solely from the sale of postage, products and services.

News Editors

OTTAWA----Corel Corporation today
introduces Corel DESIGNER (R) Technical Suite 12, the latest version of
the company's award-winning technical graphics software . The suite will be available next
month in English, French, and German, and a fully functional trial
version is now available for download from www.3; Corel(R) SVG Viewer(TM); ANSI, DIN, ISO,
engineering and architectural templates; and comprehensive symbol
libraries containing over 4000 manufacturing , electrical, and
architectural symbols.

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The text on
the back of the stamp sheet reads:

* Deeply involved in politics and civic life, Benjamin Franklin served in
the Continental Congress and signed both the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution. For the first time, businesses have access to an
affordable and comprehensive suite that's ideal for meeting their
needs - whether they have one technical illustrator on staff or need
to deploy a powerful solution to an entire documentation team," added
Davies.

"Corel DESIGNER is playing a key role in the development of
technical documentation at Mercury Marine.

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The
text on the back of the stamp sheet reads: Benjamin Franklin was vital
to the organization of the American postal system , serving as postmaster
of Philadelphia and a Deputy Postmaster for the American colonies before
being appointed Postmaster General by the Continental Congress in 1775.
It is an independent federal agency that visits 144 million homes and
businesses every day, six days a week and is the only service provider
delivering to every address in the nation. Its website, usps.

- Maximizing data integrity - Support for a multitude of vector file
formats including open-standard SVG and CGM v4, AutoCAD(R) 2004,
PDF, and a full complement of bitmap formats ensures seamless
integration into a technical illustrator's workflow. New
Unicode support makes it easy to create multilingual documents
(including Czech, Greek, and Asian languages), enabling teams
located around the world to work more efficiently.

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You can use the
stamps as "flash cards" to test your knowledge of Franklin, as text behind the
pane provides highlights of his accomplishments. With annual revenues
of more than $69 billion, it is the world's leading provider of mailing and
delivery services , offering some of the most affordable postage rates in the
world. This integrated collection of
software applications is unmatched by any other offering in the
industry, giving value-conscious customers access to a powerful
collection of tools at a price lower than what other vendors charge
for a single application. All rights reserved.

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com/communications/news/stamps/2005/sr05_054. Free Franklin ,
Postmaster," a reference to Franklin's personal franking signature.

Pricing and Availability

Starting today, customers can download the multi-lingual
(English, French and German) free trial version directly from Corel
at www.

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The text on the back of the stamp sheet reads:

* Remembered for the pursuits he called "philosophical amusements,"
Benjamin Franklin was intensely curious about natural phenomena..

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, on a 1775 letter to
Philadelphia; a colonial-era date postmark; and a late 18th-century painting
of Franklin by Charles Wilson Peale after a portrait by David Martin. Often considered America's first diplomat,
Franklin negotiated an alliance with France and helped to secure a peace
treaty with Great Britain. Users can also create, deploy , and manage
custom templates and symbols for standard use throughout an
organization..

About Corel

Corel Corporation provides innovative software solutions that
help millions of value-conscious businesses and consumers in over 75
countries improve their productivity.

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The
stamps will be issued later this spring in Philadelphia.
To view the images, visit this link and scroll down to the Benjamin
Franklin reference:
http://www.

- Fully customizable and scriptable environment - Technical
illustrators can adapt their working environment by automating
repetitive tasks with Microsoft(R) Visual Basic(R) for Applications
or customizing the user interface to mimic other graphics
applications, including previous versions of Corel and Micrografx
DESIGNER.

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com, attracts more than 21 million
visitors each month.corel.

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WASHINGTON, If Benjamin Franklin were alive today,
he would be 300 years old and probably the most accomplished person on the
planet.usps. The text on the back of the stamp sheet reads:

* From his childhood apprenticeship in Boston to his career in
Philadelphia as an adult, Benjamin Franklin enjoyed a lifelong
association with printing. In addition to the Pennsylvania Gazette and
"Poor Richard's Almanack," his presses also printed a wide range of
materials, such as government pamphlets , religious tracts, currency and
books.

Corel DESIGNER 12 - Taking Advanced Technical Illustration to a New
Level

- Professional, specialized, precision drawing - New and enhanced
features including the Projected Drawing Mode, Dynamic Guides,
Gravity, and the ability to add Object Data-Hot Spotting enable
users to create their drawings precisely and with more speed than
ever before. New tools
like the Projected Drawing Mode will make production of technical
graphics so much faster.

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A $99 education
license is also available.corel.

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To highlight the achievements of this remarkable American icon, the
Postal Service will issue a set of four educational 39-cent commemorative
First-Class stamps designed to give you the "scoop" on this genius who was a
printer, scientist, statesman and the nation's first Postmaster General. Free Franklin, Postmaster
The Continental Congress appointed Franklin as the first United States
Postmaster General of the organization known today as the United States Postal
Service. The stamp honoring Franklin as a postmaster includes a graphic device
used by the "Boston Post-Boy" newspaper during the middle of the eighteenth
century; a colonial postal cover from Marlboro, MD.

Corel Corporation Introduces Corel DESIGNER(R) Technical Suite 12-Corel Delivers the World's Most Complete and Affordable Technical Graphics Suite

"Every new feature added to Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite 12 was
engineered with the needs of technical illustrators and their
specific workflow in mind. Now, with the introduction of the Corel
DESIGNER Technical Suite 12, we are looking at a whole new range of
possibilities for vector drawing and digital photo editing. Corel, the Corel
logo, Corel DESIGNER, CorelDRAW, PHOTO -PAINT, Corel CAPTURE,
CorelTRACE, Micrografx, iGrafx, FlowCharter, Picture Publisher,
WordPerfect , Painter, Natural-Media, and Paint Shop, are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its
subsidiaries.