Adobe's Award-Winning Software Built Using Trolltech Development Tools; Qt Used to Develop Adobe Photoshop Album.Business Editors/High-Tech WritersOSLO, Norway and SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2003 Trolltech(R), a leader in single source, multiplatform software development tools, today announced that Adobe System's innovative new product, Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) Album, was developed using Trolltech's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Qt(R), a multiplatform C++ development framework. "Trolltech has provided us with an intuitive, powerful tool. Qt simplified our task of developing Photoshop Album by providing high-level tools that we could customize to meet our needs," said Mike DePaoli, Photoshop Album Engineering Manager. "The product is excellent, the support was outstanding and we are extremely pleased with our decision to go with Qt." Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. Album helps users find, fix, share and protect their digital photos. The product received the Best of CES award in the photography and imaging category at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , the world's largest consumer electronics trade fair. "Adobe's use of Qt to build Photoshop Album is further validation that Qt is a world-class development framework. Qt is designed to take care of the horrible low-level details so the developer can focus on adding functionality to the application," said Eirik Eng, Trolltech president. "An engineering team using Qt can focus on the fun, creative part while Qt takes care of the rest." Qt, a development framework that runs on Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac, has been used to create thousands of commercial and open source applications since 1996. Qt has been extensively used in imaging and visualization, oil and gas exploration, automotive, special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. , aerospace, and telecom industries. Qtopia(R), which is based on Qt, is the mobile application environment for the new IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) embedded Linux reference platform, and for four of Sharp's innovative Zaurus PDAs. About Trolltech Trolltech is a software company with two flagship products: Qt and Qtopia. Qt is a multi-platform C++ application framework developers can use to write single-source applications that run -- natively -- on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and embedded Linux. Qt has been used to build thousands of successful commercial applications worldwide, and is the basis of the open source KDE (K Desktop Environment) A GUI-based user interface primarily for Unix and Linux machines, but also available for Windows and Mac. The source code is freely distributed and is maintained by developers around the world. desktop environment. Qtopia is the first comprehensive application environment built for embedded Linux, and is used in Sharp's new Zaurus SL5500 and SL-A300 PDAs. Trolltech is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices in Brisbane, Australia, and Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . More about Trolltech can be found at www.trolltech.com. |
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