Adobe Systems to Offer Authoring Tools For the Microsoft Network; Adobe Acrobat & Adobe's Key Graphics Products to Be Integrated with Microsoft "Blackbird".MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 1995--Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ) today announced that it is working with Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, to facilitate the creation and distribution of graphically rich content over the Microsoft(tm) Network. Adobe will be integrating its industry-leading authoring tools, including Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. (tm) and 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. (tm), into Microsoft's interactive application publishing platform, code-named "Blackbird." Adobe and Microsoft also will work to integrate Adobe(tm) Acrobat(tm) software into "Blackbird," allowing users of the Microsoft Network See MSN. Microsoft Network - The Microsoft Network to seamlessly view Adobe 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. ) documents created by Acrobat products. The "Blackbird" system allows content providers to offer rich interactive multimedia applications and services on the Microsoft Network, providing users with a compelling and exciting on-line experience. Interactive applications developed with "Blackbird" are optimized for low-bandwidth delivery of rich multimedia content. "Blackbird" is expected to be available in January 1996. Adobe intends to support "Blackbird" through Microsoft OLE 2.0 in future versions of its key applications. This support will provide users with access to professional applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator for content creation in the Blackbird environment. Users of Adobe products will be able to leverage their existing investment by outputting to "Blackbird." Adobe Acrobat software lets publishers create visually rich, cross-platform electronic documents using virtually any authoring tool available today. With Acrobat, users can publish once in Adobe PDF -- an open, searchable file format that preserves document fidelity across all major computer platforms and printers, the Internet and on-line services. Adobe Systems, 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. Adobe's 1994 revenue was approximately $598 million. CONTACT: Carol Sacks 415/962-4989, Fax 415/969-7987 or Therese M. Bruno 206/233-7315, Fax 206/343-4240 http://www.adobe.com/ |
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