ADOBE
COMPANY PROFILE
Adobe
revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For
25 years, the company’s award-winning software and technologies
have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications
by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that
engages people virtually anywhere at any time. From rich images in
print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of
media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and
felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information.
With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most
respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the
world’s largest and most diversified software companies.
History
of Innovation
Adobe
founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock shared a vision for
publishing and graphic arts that would forever change how people
create and engage with information. The two men met in the late 1970s
while working at the renowned Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC),
where they researched device-independent graphic systems and
printing. Excited by the potential of their work to reshape
computing, Geschke and Warnock eventually realized that the only way
to take their ideas from the lab to the burgeoning technology market
would be to create their own company. In 1982, they founded Adobe
Systems Incorporated on a simple premise: how could text and images
on a computer screen translate beautifully and accurately into print?
A year later, they helped launch the desktop publishing revolution by
introducing Adobe® PostScript® technology, providing a radical new
approach to printing text and images on paper. For the first time, a
computer file could be printed exactly as it appeared on screen, with
all formatting, graphics and fonts intact. Adobe PostScript was
licensed to printer manufacturers worldwide and delivered
unprecedented cost
