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AGT-Seven Embraces Adobe InDesign.


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SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States
San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850.
, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 2003

World's Largest Print Service Provider Accepts InDesign Files at Worldwide Locations, Delivers Training to Customers Moving to InDesign

Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA.  Incorporated (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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:ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ), the leader in network publishing, today announced that AGT-Seven, a business unit of Applied Graphics Technologies and provider of graphics services to the advertising community, has expanded its support for Adobe(R) InDesign(R) software. A member of the Adobe Solutions Network Adobe Solutions Network (ASN) is the official name of the end-user training, developer, and print service providers authorized by Adobe Systems, Inc. There are three basic components to the program. , AGT-Seven accepts InDesign files at locations worldwide. The company also delivers in-depth InDesign training, has moved its internal publishing projects to InDesign, and is integrating InDesign into its TeamBase publishing system.

"AGT-Seven's success depends upon supporting industry-leading technologies and meeting customer demand. To meet both challenges, we integrated InDesign into our prepress and print production workflows more than two years ago and have established a strong, supportive relationship with Adobe," said Diane Romano, president of AGT-Seven. "Now, with an increasing number of clients moving to InDesign, we're taking a multifaceted approach to helping customers succeed with InDesign by delivering broader support, training, and publishing systems based on InDesign."

AGT-Seven joins a growing list of more than 6,000 print service providers accepting InDesign files for prepress and printing. Adobe offers a comprehensive training program that gives service providers the requisite skills to process InDesign files and help ensure rapid, consistent printing.

"Major service providers such as AGT-Seven are the lynchpin lynch·pin  
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 of the print publishing industry," said Jim Heeger, senior vice president of Creative Professional Products at Adobe. "As an increasing number of creative professionals adopt InDesign, thousands of service providers are finding a competitive business advantage by stepping up their support for InDesign and providing value-added services such as training."

AGT-Seven client Bartle Bogle Hegarty Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) is a British advertising agency, responsible for some of the more notable advertising campaigns of the last twenty years. The company was founded by John Bartle, Nigel Bogle & John Hegarty in 1982.  (BBH BBH Brown Brothers Harriman (investment bank)
BBH Bartle, Bogle, Hegarty (advertising agency)
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), one of the world's leading advertising agencies with clients such as Levi's, Johnnie Walker, Unilever's AXE, Sony Ericsson, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, ING Direct, US Weekly, Men's Journal, amfAR, and Mentos This article is about the mint and fruit-flavored candy. For the Jamaican musical style, see Mento.

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, has converted to InDesign to take advantage of the software's advanced creative tools and create a streamlined production workflow. The BBH New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 office is supplying AGT-Seven with InDesign files for print processing on a regular basis.

"InDesign opens a world of exciting creative possibilities for BBH in executing print designs," said Brad Kleiner, IT director for BBH. "No matter what kind of unique effects we include in our page layouts, from complex typography to transparency, we can count on reliable, timely file output when we send InDesign files to AGT-Seven."

In addition to advancing its support of clients using InDesign, AGT-Seven has integrated InDesign into its TeamBase publishing system and moved page layout and production of Techniques, a magazine distributed to 2,000 AGT-Seven clients and prospects, to InDesign. AGT-Seven's own conversion to InDesign for designing and publishing Techniques went smoothly and required minimal training.

AGT-Seven employs numerous Adobe Certified Experts (ACEs) and many of the company's locations are Adobe Authorized Service Providers (AASPs). AASP AASP Apple Authorized Service Provider
AASP Associação dos Advogados de São Paulo (Brazil)
AASP Alliance of Automotive Service Providers
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 is one of many membership programs for developers, service and training providers, and other companies affiliated with Adobe dedicated to helping them build and market Adobe-related services to achieve their business goals. For more information about joining the Adobe Solutions Network, please visit: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/index.jsp.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems Incorporated (www.adobe.com), the leader in network publishing, offers a comprehensive line of software for enterprise and creative professional customers. Its products enable customers to create, manage and deliver visually rich, compelling and reliable content. Based in San Jose, Calif., Adobe is one of the world's largest software companies The Forbes Global 2000 includes the following list of the world's largest software companies.

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1 54 Microsoft United States .
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