Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Sun Workstations now available.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 1995--Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ) today announced it is shipping Adobe Illustrator A full-featured drawing program for Windows and Macintosh from Adobe. It provides sophisticated tracing and text manipulation capabilities as well as color separations. Included is Adobe Type Manager and a selection of Type 1 fonts. Version 5.5 for Sun, a new release of its market-leading illustration and page design program. With new features and enhancements matching Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for the Macintosh, Adobe Illustrator for Sun workstations lets users easily work in a networked environment and quickly access large collections of files. The new version includes hundreds of fonts, enhanced text-handling capabilities, a simplified user interface, Adobe ShowPS and Adobe Acrobat software. Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Sun is available from authorized resellers now. The Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Sun program provides a full-featured tool for technical writers, creative professionals and service bureaus. Enhancements to Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Sun software enable users to create a wide range of documents and materials including newsletters, advertisements, brochures, technical illustrations and catalogs. Adobe Illustrator 5.5 complements popular image-editing products such as Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. , as well as text-focused publishing applications such as FrameMaker, Interleaf Desktop publishing software that was widely used for DOS, Windows 95/98, NT, and a variety of Unix-based computers from Interleaf, Inc., Waltham, MA. Interleaf's full-featured program supported a large number of document and image types, including its ability to handle extremely long and WordPerfect, providing a full range of design and illustration products for the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). environment. Adobe Illustrator for Sun provides full PostScript capability, allowing users to place and view EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. files from any source in their illustrations. Additionally, Adobe Illustrator software on Macintosh, Sun, Silicon Graphics and Windows platforms use the same file format, making it easy to exchange files between platforms. Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Sun software includes several complementary Adobe products and add-ons to provide enhanced capabilities for users. These products include: -- 200 Type 1 fonts -- clip art A set of canned images used to illustrate word processing and desktop publishing documents. library -- Adobe Acrobat Exchange Adobe's original packaging of the PDF Writer. It was later made part of Acrobat. See Acrobat. and Adobe Acrobat Distiller, which allow users to view, distribute, print and save documents in Portable Document Format (file format) Portable Document Format - (PDF) The native file format for Adobe Systems' Acrobat. PDF is the file format for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. (PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. ) regardless of the computer and operating system -- Adobe ShowPS, a viewing application that lets users see on the screen PostScript language documents created in applications such as Adobe Photoshop, FrameMaker, Interleaf or WordPerfect -- Adobe Type Installer, a graphical application for installing and managing Type 1 fonts on UNIX workstations. Price and Availability Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Sun is available from Adobe-authorized resellers with suggested retail prices as follows: -- Single right to use: $ 995 -- Five right to use: $3,995 -- Ten right to use: $6,995 Upgrades are free for users who purchased and registered Adobe Illustrator Version 3.5 for Sun. For the name and phone number of the nearest Adobe-authorized Sun reseller, customers should contact Adobe at 1-800-83-FONTS. Minimum system requirements for Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for Sun software are a Sun SPARCstation 2 or newer processor, Solaris 2.3 operating system, OpenWindows or Motif window manager In computing, the Motif Window Manager (MWM) is an X window manager based on the Motif toolkit. MWM is a lightweight and, by today's standards, minimalist window manager. MWM lacks support for desktop icons or virtual desktops. , 32 MB of RAM, a hard disk and CD-ROM drive. Adobe Systems Incorporated, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . Adobe develops, markets and supports computer software products and technologies that enable users to create, display, print and communicate electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to major computer, printing, and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of applications software and type products for authoring visually rich documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of powerful, but easy to use, products for home and small business users. Adobe has subsidiaries in Europe and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide network of dealers and distributors. Adobe's 1994 revenue was approximately $598 million. -0- Note to Editors: Acrobat, Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Distiller, PostScript and Adobe ShowPS are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. FrameMaker is a registered trademark of Frame Technologies Inc. Sun is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc. SPARCstation is a registered trademark of SPARC International Inc., licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems Inc. and is based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. Solaris is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc., which has not tested or approved this product. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Ltd. Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc. WordPerfect is a registered trademark of WordPerfect Corp. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Adobe Systems Inc. Micael Wong, 415/962-2197, mwong@adobe.com or http://www.adobe.com/ |
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