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Adobe Systems Alive

Adobe Systems
KindCompany
Founded1982
StatusAlive
FoundersWarnock & Geschke
FieldSoftware
Sourcewww.adobe.com ↗

The PostScript company — Warnock and Geschke left PARC and turned page description into a business, then bought or built the creative-software stack.

Created by John Warnock
Created PostScript

Warnock and Geschke left Xerox PARC in 1982 to productize InterPress, which became PostScript — a Turing-complete page-description language that made the Apple LaserWriter (1985) and desktop publishing possible.

Illustrator (1987), Photoshop (1989, acquired), PDF (1993), and the later Macromedia acquisition made Adobe the creative-software monopoly. Warnock ran it until 2000; the PDF is his most-cited artifact.

Sources

  1. adobe.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Inc.