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I find adobe.com really interesting. What were they doing back then?
by danvoell 12y ago
I find adobe.com really interesting. What were they doing back then?
- itafroma 12y ago> I find adobe.com really interesting. What were they doing back then? Adobe was founded by ex-Xerox PARC employees, so perhaps not surprisingly their first couple of successes were printing related: PostScript and Type 1 fonts in 1982 and 1984, respectively. By 1986 they were working in desktop publishing with the development of Illustrator.
- kayfox 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript
- jameshart 12y agoPrepress industry was an early adopter for the internet. Not that surprising that Adobe, whose postscript format as fundamental to that shift to electronic transmission of printable artifacts, were early to the net.