“Founding and Growing Adobe Systems, Inc”, John E. Warnock, Charles Geschke2019-08-21 (CS, typography)⁠:

[cf. Warnock2012>/Warnock2018] Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems heralded several of the technological innovations necessary to precipitate the emergence of desktop publishing as well as many features of modern office computing, digital media, and graphic arts.

In this paper, Adobe founders Charles Geschke and John Warnock cover their professional history, the conception of Adobe Systems, and its growth. They also explain the technology behind the advances in computer printing, electronic file transfer, and digital art and photography.

Adobe, its products, and its engineers played a key role in these developments, which enabled desktop publishing and the publishing revolution.

[Keywords: desktop publishing, personal computing, digital photo editing, history of desktop publishing, history of computing, history of software, Adobe, Adobe Systems, PostScript, PDF, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, GUI, Xerox PARC]

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