Adobe Systems announces Adobe Font Folio version 7.0; Adobe Type Library now supports UNIX, Macintosh and Windows platforms.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 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 Adobe Font Folio version 7.0, a multi-platform CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). containing the entire Adobe Type Library of more than 2,000 Type 1 typefaces for use on Macintosh, Windows, and for the first time, Silicon Graphics and Sun platforms. Adobe Font Folio now extends Type 1 support to 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). platform with the Adobe Type Installer utility, giving users full accessibility to the Adobe Type Library. The suggested retail price for Adobe Font Folio version 7.0 is $12,000, a savings of more than 80 percent off purchasing typeface packages sold separately at the suggested retail price. The new version 7.0 offers 117 new faces not found on previous versions of Adobe Font Folio, including new Adobe Originals, multiple master typefaces, chromatic chromatic /chro·mat·ic/ (kro-mat´ik) 1. pertaining to color; stainable with dyes. 2. pertaining to chromatin. chro·mat·ic adj. 1. Relating to color or colors. fonts and specialty packages -- Adobe Wild Type and the new Adobe Collector's Edition: Initial Caps, an assortment of decorative clip art by Marwan Aridi. Additionally, Adobe Font Folio version 7.0 comes with the Adobe Type Browser for Macintosh and Windows, an on-screen catalog for viewing and printing typefaces. CONTACT: Adobe Systems Inc. Sonya Schaefer, 415/962-2630 |
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