How far they have come

Looking through “An Introduction to Postscript” link, there is a section on Adobe’s history.

Adobe Systems formed was in 1982 with $2.5 million in initial backing.

It went public in August 1986.

Adobe has been profitable since day one.

Adobe does not manufacturer printers. It sesigns controllers and software and then licenses manufacturing rights to OEMs.

Originally, the only items Adobe sold to the general public were fonts.

Adobe has branched into the software market, developing some software internally, and purchasing some software (and software companies) for others.

• PhotoShop – Image manipulation software.
• Illustrator – Object oriented image editing software.
• PageMaker – Page Layout software.
• StreamLine – bitmap to spline converion software.
• Acrobat – Cross platform electronic document distribution.