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For immediate release
August 4, 2005
For more information, contact:
Jan M. Guszynski
Marketing Director
Tribune Media Services
(312) 222-4717
jguszynski@tribune.com

KRT Infographics Begins Conversion to Adobe Illustrator CS2

Washington, DC, August 4, 2005 — Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services (KRT) Graphics will post its infographics in Adobe Illustrator CS2, the current version of Illustrator, beginning July 5, 2006. As of that date, graphics will no longer be posted in Macromedia FreeHand 9, the software KRT is now using.

"We recognize this will be a big change for many of our clients, as well as for us, and the long lead time before the changeover is meant to ease the transition," said Wes Albers, director of KRT Graphics. "We think the inevitable 'growing pains' are outweighed by the advantages of working in the latest version of a drawing program, one that works seamlessly with many of the other programs we use."
KRT's infographics will also be available in PDF format for clients who want to view and publish the files without using drawing software.
Adobe's pending purchase of Macromedia; the popularity of Illustrator in international markets and among non-newspaper publishers; and the compatibility of Illustrator with other Adobe products commonly used in the publishing world (PhotoShop, InDesign, Acrobat, etc.), were all contributing factors in KRT's decision.
KRT's 32,000+ graphics archive will not be converted to Illustrator. Customers will be able to edit archive graphics in either FreeHand or Illustrator as they do today. Albers added: "Moving forward, the archive will become an Illustrator archive as we post new files and remove outdated files."
Macintosh and PC versions of Illustrator CS2 are available. The Mac and PC versions are fully portable, meaning that a CS2 file created on a Mac can be opened on a PC and vice versa.
Illustrator CS2 is available in U.S. English, International English, French, German, Swedish and many other languages. Versions in Dutch, Danish, Chinese and Korean should be available by late August 2005; Hebrew and Arabic versions are slated for release in December 2005.
About KRT
Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services (KRT) is a news and features content service partnership between Tribune Company and Knight Ridder. KRT provides news stories, photos, print and animated news and features graphics, illustrations, caricatures, paginated news and feature products, and material for young readers to news organizations in the U.S. and internationally. With contributions from more than 50 U.S. newspapers and its own staff in the United States and Europe, KRT features appear in more than 600 newspapers worldwide with a daily circulation of more than 80 million. KRT is also a major provider of content to leading online services and to broadcast stations in all major North American TV markets. For more information about KRT and its products and services, visit www.krtdirect.com.
KRT is marketed worldwide by Tribune Media Services, a leading provider of information and entertainment products to newspapers and electronic media. Tribune Media Services represents KRT internationally.