Document Sciences announces business development unit, new vice president, marketing.

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1997--

Enables company to focus on strategic alliances and growth

opportunities

Document Sciences (NASDAQ:DOCX), a global leader in document automation solutions, named Daniel J. Fregeau, formerly the company's vice president, marketing, to a new role as vice president, business development.

Robert J. Pryor has been named vice president, marketing. The appointments were announced by Tony N. Domit, president and chief executive officer of Document Sciences.

"Mr. Fregeau was selected for this important role as VP, Business Development to lead the company's efforts in developing additional avenues of evolution and implementing growth opportunities. Dan was one of the first employees at Document Sciences and has over 15 years experience in the development, sales and marketing of electronic publishing products.

"His in-depth understanding of Document Sciences' markets, customers and products uniquely position him for this important position," said Domit. Fregeau's initial focus will be broadening the company's alliance and partnership programs and developing alternate channels of distribution.

Replacing Fregeau as vice president, marketing is Robert J. Pryor. "Bob brings a wealth of high-tech marketing experience with a keen sense of innovation in establishing successful marketing programs. His previous experience as principal of web.in.sight, an Internet consulting group, is key to our expansion into electronic documents and the Internet," said Domit.

Pryor's appointment is the result of the company experience in retaining web.in.sight to help formulate the company's Internet strategy. As vice president, marketing, Pryor will be responsible for developing and implementing marketing strategies and programs for the company's Autograph suite of products, services and solutions.

Document Sciences is a leading provider of personalized and customized publishing solutions for industries including insurance, managed health care, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing/distribution, government agencies and commercial print service bureaus.

The company's Autograph products and solutions enable a crucial form of communication between organizations and their customers by employing enterprise database assets designed to produce high-quality and cost-effective documents that can be distributed in high volume.

The company is based in San Diego, with regional sales force locations across the United States and Canada and a European subsidiary in Nice, France, supporting Western Europe. The company also markets its products in Australia and New Zealand. At present, the company has licensed its products to more than 500 end user customers worldwide. For more information, visit the Document Sciences Web site at www.docscience.com or send e-mail to marketing@docscience.com .

This news release contains certain forward-looking statements. While these statements reflect management's best current judgment, they are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to vary. These risk factors are identified in documents the company has filed with the SEC. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements.

CONTACT: Document Sciences Corp., San Diego

Gaylin Allbaugh, 619/625-2000

gallbaugh@docscience.com