Adobe Systems announces special upgrade price to FreeHand users for Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for the Macintosh.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 1995--Adobe Systems Inc. (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) ) Wednesday announced a special upgrade offer for 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. for the Macintosh to registered owners of Macromedia FreeHand A full-featured vector drawing program for Windows and Macintosh from Adobe, which acquired it in 2005 from Macromedia. It combines a wide range of drawing tools with special effects. FreeHand was first available on the Mac and was originally Aldus Freehand from Aldus Corporation. software. Beginning Jan. 1, 1995, through March 31, 1995, registered users of the FreeHand See Macromedia FreeHand. drawing program can upgrade to Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for the Macintosh for a special price of $149. To upgrade, registered users of FreeHand may call 800/521-1976 and present their serial number as proof of purchase to receive the special upgrade. In addition, Computer Town is offering FreeHand users a Macworld Expo showfloor special on Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for the Macintosh. With serial number as proof of purchase, FreeHand users can upgrade to Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for the Macintosh for $120 at Computer Town's booth, No. 1345. The offer is good Jan. 4-7, 1995. "FreeHand users can now take advantage of all of the benefits of the industry's leading illustration program for a nominal price Nominal price Price quotations on futures for a period in which no actual trading took place. ," said John Kunze, Adobe's vice president of graphics products. "Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for the Macintosh offers complete solutions to painstaking tasks that can be difficult to achieve in other drawing programs. And by including the Deluxe 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). , Adobe Acrobat software and Power Macintosh See Power Mac. (computer) Power Macintosh - Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Macintosh systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. and Macintosh application software in one box, users will have unprecedented flexibility and creativity at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. ." The Adobe Illustrator 5.5 for the Macintosh program has many advantages over FreeHand, including multiple color gradients, expanded Pathfinder filters that enable trapping as well as a powerful plug-in architecture that allows extensibility. This open architecture enables third-party developers to offer plug-ins that address vertical markets and/or add feature supersets for a broader base of users, such as the recently announced Sree's Cool Tools, a package of 18 vector-based plug-ins from Intrepid Systems of Newtown, Penn. Version 5.5 includes text-handling features such as tabs, a spell checker, search and replace by font and the Deluxe CD-ROM. The Deluxe CD-ROM contains an interactive presentation on the Adobe Illustrator program, Tips and Techniques, 220 Type 1 fonts, 100 pieces of third-party clip art and Adobe Collector's Editions I and II. The CD contains Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat manuals as well as technical notes for Adobe Illustrator in the Adobe Acrobat 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. ). Version 5.5 is the first software program to add the capability to import, edit and export any file produced on a computer using PDF, and to take information from those files and use it in other documents. The package ships with Acrobat Distiller and Acrobat Exchange applications. System Requirements Minimum system requirements for Adobe Illustrator 5.5 software include a Macintosh computer with 68020 or greater processor, System 6.0.7 or greater, 4 megabytes of application RAM, a hard disk and one floppy disk drive floppy disk drive - disk drive and a 13-inch color monitor. Requirements for viewing the interactive demos on the CD-ROM include a CD-ROM drive, QuickTime system extension (included), 4 megabytes of RAM and a 13-inch or larger color monitor. Adobe Systems Inc., founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain View. 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 application 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 recently completed a merger with Aldus Corp. and Adobe's 1993 revenue on a combined basis was approximately $520 million. -0- Note to Editors: Acrobat, Adobe, Adobe Dimensions, Adobe Streamline, Distiller, and Adobe Illustrator are trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Apple, Macintosh, Power Macintosh and QuickTime are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. Macromedia FreeHand is a registered trademark of Macromedia Inc. CONTACT: Adobe Systems Inc. Patricia J. Pane, 415/962-2967 Fax: 415/962-2659 ppane@mv.us.adobe.com |
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