Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE)(LSE: ABS) is a computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. They founded Adobe after leaving Xerox PARC in order to further develop and commercialize the PostScript page description language. Adobe played a significant role in sparking the desktop publishing revolution when Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in the LaserWriter printer product line in 1985. The company name Adobe comes from the Adobe Creek, which ra ...

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Adobe's first products following PostScript were digital fonts. Adobe has continued to be a strong presence in the fonts market: in 1996, the company, in combination with Microsoft, announced the OpenType font format, and in 2003 Adobe completed the conversion of its library of Type 1 fonts to OpenType. In the mid-1980s, soon after introducing PostScript, Adobe entered the consumer software market with Adobe Illustrator, a vector-based drawing program for the Apple Macintosh. Illustrator was the logical outgrowth of commercializing th ...

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Adobe Systems, Adobe Systems - History, Adobe Systems - Employees, Adobe Systems - Key employees, Adobe Systems - Reputation, Adobe Systems - Products, Adobe Systems - Financial information

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Carbon disulfide (CS2) is a colorless liquid with a pleasant odor that is like the smell of chloroform. It has a melting point of -111oC and a boiling point of 46o, and a density of 1250kg/m3 at room temperature. The impure carbon disulfide that is usually used in most industrial processes is a yellowish liquid with an unpleasant odor, like that of rotting radishes, tha ...

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PostScript - Before PostScript. Prior to the introduction of PostScript, printers were designed to print character output given the text—typically in ASCII—as input. There were a number of technologies for this task, but most shared the property that the characters were physically difficult to change, as they were stamped onto typewriter keys, bands of metal, or optical plates. This changed to some degree with the increasing popularity of dot matrix printers. The characters on these systems were "drawn ...

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PostScript, PostScript - History, PostScript - Usage in printing, PostScript - Before PostScript, PostScript - PostScript printing, PostScript - Font handling, PostScript - Other implementations, PostScript - Usage as a display system, PostScript - The language, PostScript - Arithmetics, PostScript - Named variables, PostScript - Procedure definitions, PostScript - Graphics manipulations

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PostScript - Traditional printing. Prior to the introduction of PostScript, printers were designed to print character output given the text—typically in ASCII—as input. There were a number of technologies for this task, but most shared the property that the characters were physically difficult to change, as they were stamped onto typewriter keys, bands of metal, or optical plates. This changed to some degree with the increasing popularity of dot matrix printers. The characters on these systems were "dr ...

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PostScript, PostScript - History, PostScript - Usage in printing, PostScript - Traditional printing, PostScript - PostScript printing, PostScript - Font handling, PostScript - Other implementations, PostScript - Usage as a display system, PostScript - The language, PostScript - Arithmetics, PostScript - Named variables, PostScript - Procedure definitions, PostScript - Graphics manipulations

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A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of a digital camera or image scanner. Raw (as in not yet "cooked") files are so named because they are not yet processed and ready to use by a bitmap graphics editor, printed, or displayed by a typical web browser. The image must be processed and converted to an RGB format such as TIFF or JPEG before it can be manipulated. Nearly all digital cameras can process the image from the sensor into a JPEG file using settings for white balance, color saturation, c ...

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CS, Cs or cs may stand for: Cable select, an IDE device setting Caesium, the chemical element (Cs) Caraş-Severin county (Romania) indicative Central Station; however, in the Netherlands names like Amsterdam CS have been changed into Amsterdam Centraal Cerulean Studios LLC, creators of the Trillian chat client ChanServ, an IRC network service (on some networks) Christian Science Cinemascope, a picture-format used for Motion pictures Clin

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• Ampersand - History
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Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke (b. 1939) is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 11, 1939, Geschke attended Saint Ignatius High School and went on to earn an AB in classics and an MS in mathematics from Xavier University, as well as a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to co-founding Adobe, Geschke and Warnock worked at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Geschke had ...

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Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the market leader for commercial bitmap image manipulation, and probably the most well-known piece of software produced by Adobe Systems. It is usually referred to simply as "Photoshop". Photoshop is currently only available for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows; versions up to Photoshop 7 can also be used with other operating systems such as Linux using software such as CrossOver Office. Past ...

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Computer graphics (CG) is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world. The first major advance in computer graphics was the development of the Sketchpad in 1962 by Ivan Sutherland. This field can be divided into several areas: real-time 3D rendering (often used in video games), computer animation, video capture and video creation rendering, special effects editing (often ...

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• Computer graphics - Computer graphics 2D
• Computer graphics - Computer graphics 3D
• Computer graphics - Shading
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Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. Such characters may be rendered as boxes, question marks, or other replacement symbols, depending on your browser, operating system, and installed fonts. Even if you have ensured that your browser is interpreting the article as UTF-8 encoded and you have installed a font that supports a wide range of Unicode, such as Arial Unicode MS, Code2000, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Lu ...

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• Unicode - Origin and development
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• Unicode - Storage transfer and processing
• Unicode - Ready-made versus composite characters
• Unicode - Issues
• Unicode - Unicode in use
• Unicode - Operating systems
• Unicode - E-mail
• Unicode - Web
• Unicode - Fonts
• Unicode - Multilingual text-rendering engines
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A type foundry is a company that produces and/or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers. Today's digital type foundries accumulate and distribute typefaces created by type designers, who may either be freelancers operating their own independent foundry, or employed by another foundry. Type foundries may also provide custom type design services. Including:

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The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U) is a public university in Salt Lake City, Utah. Originally established February 28, 1850 by Latter-day Saint leader Brigham Young, and was initially named "University of Deseret." The school closed two years later for financial reasons. It reopened as a commercial school in 1867 in the old Council House in what is now downtown Salt Lake City under the direction of David O. Calder, a prominent Salt Lake City businessman and associate of Mormon leader Brigham Young. The Uni ...

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A "work for hire" (sometimes expressed as "work made for hire") is an exception to the general rule that the person who actually creates a work is the legally-recognized author of that work. According to copyright law in most countries, if a work is "made for hire", the employer - not the employee - is considered the legal author. The employer may be a corporation or an individual. The actual creator may or may not be publicly credited for the work, and this credit does not affect its legal status. For example, Microsoft hired ...

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Adobe Atmosphere (often abbreviated Atmo; originally 3D Anarchy) is a 3D computer graphics creation product created by Attitude Software. In November 1999, Adobe Systems purchased the technology. Adobe released its last version of Atmosphere, version 1.0 build 216 in February 2004, then discontinued the software in December 2004. The product spent the majority of its lifetime in beta testing. Adobe Atmosphere - Features. Atmosphere distinguished itself from pre-existing technologies like VRML ...

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With PostScript becoming a de-facto standard for printed output, it was natural to consider using the same language for describing the screen output as well. The rapid increase in CPU power in the late 1980s, combined with an interest in windowing systems, led to several attempts to create a display system that used PostScript as its primary display technology. There are a number of advantages to using PS as the display system. One is that the fonts on other systems required the user to keep not only bitmaps for the screen, but also T ...

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PostScript, PostScript - History, PostScript - Usage in printing, PostScript - Before PostScript, PostScript - PostScript printing, PostScript - Font handling, PostScript - Other implementations, PostScript - Usage as a display system, PostScript - The language, PostScript - Arithmetics, PostScript - Named variables, PostScript - Procedure definitions, PostScript - Graphics manipulations

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Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based drawing program developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. Adobe Illustrator - History. Adobe Illustrator was first developed for the Apple Macintosh in 1987 as a logical commercialization of Adobe's in-house font development software and PostScript file format. In many ways Illustrator's release was a gamble: the Macintosh did not have high market share, the only printer that could output Illustrator documents was Apple's own LaserWriter (also very new ...

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The concepts of the PostScript language were seeded in 1976 when John Warnock was working at Evans and Sutherland, a famous computer graphics company. At that time John Gaffney was developing an interpreter for a large three-dimensional graphics database of New York harbor. Gaffney conceived the Design System language to process the graphics, very similar to the Forth programming language. In 1978 Evans and Sutherland asked Warnock to move from the San Francisco bay area to their main headquarters in Utah, but he was not intere ...

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PostScript, PostScript - History, PostScript - Usage in printing, PostScript - Before PostScript, PostScript - PostScript printing, PostScript - Font handling, PostScript - Other implementations, PostScript - Usage as a display system, PostScript - The language, PostScript - Arithmetics, PostScript - Named variables, PostScript - Procedure definitions, PostScript - Graphics manipulations

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PostScript is a full-fledged, Turing-complete, programming language. Typically, PostScript programs are not produced by humans, but by other programs. However, it is perfectly possible to produce graphics or to perform calculations by hand-crafting PostScript programs. PostScript is an interpreted, stack-based language (i.e. stack language) similar to Forth. The language syntax uses reverse Polish notation, which makes parentheses unnecessary, but reading a program requires some practice, because one has to keep the layout of the stac ...

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PostScript, PostScript - History, PostScript - Usage in printing, PostScript - Before PostScript, PostScript - PostScript printing, PostScript - Font handling, PostScript - Other implementations, PostScript - Usage as a display system, PostScript - The language, PostScript - Arithmetics, PostScript - Named variables, PostScript - Procedure definitions, PostScript - Graphics manipulations

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