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information users have come to expect in other media."

Continuing its presence in electronic publishing and the Internet, Adobe

in 1996 worked to make its PhotoShop software work with Ceneca PageMill

to develop Web pages.

Summary

In 1984, John Warnock and Charles Geschke created PostScript, an idea

that revolutionized the creation and printing of documents and introduced

a new computer-based industry — desktop publishing. By 1989, Adobe was

simultaneously battling with the largest PC manufacturer and the largest

software company and it appeared that the company might be forced into

the background. Surprising everyone except itself, Adobe fought back successfully

and, by 1996, it faced the future with a full line of products for both

print and electronic publishing — PostScript, Adobe Illustrator, PageMaker,

FrameMaker, Adobe Premier – a non-linear video editing software, Adobe

PhotoShop, and Adobe Acrobat.

Adobe Systems, Inc. is now the world’s third largest software publisher

behind Microsoft and Oracle. PostScript

is used in over 270 products from 40 manufacturers and was selected by

the International Standards Organization

(ISO) as the Standard Page Description Language. Between its acquisitions

and growth, Adobe Systems now employs 2000 people worldwide.

Sources

Encyclopedia

of Computer Science; VanNostrand Reinhold; 1993

Hoover’s

Company Profile Database; The Reference Press, Inc.; 1996

Adobe

Press Release; September 18, 1995; www.adobe.com; Adobe Systems, Inc.;

1994, 1995