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37 unusual facts about Adobe Systems


Adobe Director

Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director) is a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia—now part of Adobe Systems.

Adobe eLearning Suite

Prior to its acquisition by Adobe Systems, Macromedia had a product bundle known as eLearning Suite 2004, which included Flash MX 2004, Dreamweaver MX 2004, and Authorware 7.

Adobe LiveMotion

Adobe LiveMotion was a product created by Adobe Systems released in 2000 and perceived as a direct competitor to Macromedia Flash.

Adobe Ovation

Adobe Ovation is a presentation software developed by Adobe Systems, originally released by Serious Magic Inc..

Adobe Premiere Express

As Adobe Systems allowed websites to contact them to request Express, YouTube received it on their website as a way of remixing videos on a member's YouTube account.

Adobe Story

Adobe Story is a collaborative script development tool from Adobe Systems Inc.

Adobe Technical Communication Suite

Adobe Technical Communication Suite is a collection of applications made by Adobe Systems for technical communicators, help authors, instructional designers, and eLearning and training design professionals.

Bay Area Video Coalition

In partnership with Podshow, Adobe and SF Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Digital Media Advisory Council, BAVC Next Gen presented True2Life: Everyday Activities and Youth Changing the World, showing youth as innovative cultural producers and the Bay Area as a model in linking youth to community and industry change.

CricketDraw

One notable feature of CricketDraw was its ability to display the raw PostScript code and the QuickDraw-interpreted elements simultaneously in two windows, the same way Adobe Systems's Dreamweaver does with HTML code now.

Futurekids

In 2006, Adobe, Intel, Lenovo Group and Futurekids created a web portal, 21st Century Connections, dedicated to delivering technology solutions that will help students learn 21st century skills.

IPTC Information Interchange Model

These were defined originally in 1979, and revised significantly in 1991 to be part of the IIM, but the concept really advanced in 1994 when Adobe Systems defined a specification for actually embedding the metadata into digital image files — yielding "IPTC headers."

Other speakers included photographers such as David Riecks and Peter Krogh, photo and news agencies such as Reuters; representatives of standards bodies such as PLUS, IPTC, and IFRA; as well as spokespersons from the photo metadata implementers side, such as Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., Canon Inc., FotoWare AS, Hasselblad, and Microsoft.

Jason Kottke

In 1999, he designed the Silkscreen typeface — since used by Adobe, MTV, and Volvo, amongst others.

Jaycut

JayCut was an internet based video editing software tool that along with competitors Jumpcut.com, Motionbox and Eyespot were the first to offer this Web 2.0 feature pioneered by FORscene, later also added by YouTube through Adobe.

Killersound

Given that neither Macromedia nor Adobe Systems have never developed a similar capability in subsequent versions of Flash, the technique is still useful to developers today.

In fact, Adobe Systems still features the technique as it now perfectly applies to low-bandwidth audio presentation on mobile devices at Adobe.com.

Linotronic

Manufactured by Mergenthaler Linotype Company and popularized by the Adobe RIP, enabling PostScript language files to be imaged by the Linotronic imagesetter.

MacUser

Recent features have covered new developments by Quark and Adobe in creating iPad magazines, benchmark tests of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops, and group tests of personal color laser printers.

Metadata Working Group

Metadata Working Group was formed in 2006 by Adobe Systems, Apple, Canon, Microsoft and Nokia.

National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management

Among the members of the volunteer group reported in 2008 were Adobe Systems chairman Charles Geschke, Korn/Ferry chief executive Paul Reilly, former Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron, Gerard R. Roche of Heidrick & Struggles, and former McKinsey managing director Frederick Gluck; Lawrence Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell, has been a pro bono consultant.

Niceville High School

Since the institute opened in 2004, students have been awarded 250+ certificates in programs such as Microsoft, Certified Internet Web Professional, Oracle Corporation, Cisco, and Adobe Systems.

Nick Corcodilos

Since 1995 Corcodilos has syndicated special Ask The Headhunter features to technical publications including Electronic Engineering Times, InfoWorld, TechRepublic, Dice.com and Adobe Systems' marketing community, CMO.com.

Nick Veasey

His work has featured in many international advertising campaigns and adorned products and packaging worldwide, notably Adobe's Creative Suite livery and Lenor/Downy fabric conditioner.

Prinergy

All job information and file metadata are stored in an Oracle database, while content is stored as Adobe PDF or PDF/X, and production control is stored as Adobe Portable Job Ticket Format, or Job Definition Format (JDF).

Quantel Paintbox

In the late 1980s Quantel embarked on lawsuits against the Adobe "Photoshop" software package and the Spaceward Graphics "Matisse" system in an attempt to protect patented aspects of the Paintbox system.

Real Time Media Flow Protocol

The Secure Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) is a proprietary protocol suite developed by Adobe Systems for encrypted, efficient multimedia delivery through both client-server and peer-to-peer models over the Internet.

Screenwriting software

Adobe Systems' recently announced screen writing software Adobe Story supports both online-offline synchronization as well as collaboration.

Serious Magic Inc.

On October 19, 2006, Adobe Systems acquired Serious Magic Inc. and its line of products.

Single-dealer platform

HTML5 has now become the technology of choice for SDPs, after vendors such as Microsoft and Adobe Systems, who previously promoted their own technologies, moved to support the new standard.

Software4Students

Full software versions from software companies such as Microsoft, Kaspersky and Adobe are available for students at massively discounted prices.

SparkChess

Citing complaints from Adobe Systems, owner of the "Flash" software brand, the game was later rebranded as SparkChess.

Sup'Internet

It consists of technical and human resource managers from companies in the world of the Internet such as Adobe, Bouygues Telecom, Microsoft, Weborama,....

Texinfo

:(Generated via texi2dvi --pdf or texi2pdf.) Based on the PostScript language, this format was developed by Adobe Systems for portable document interchange.

VoiceObjects

VoiceObjects customers included recognizable names such as Adobe, Deutsche Telekom, Hershey's, Kellogg Company, Lufthansa, and Swisscom.

WebPlatform

The project is a collaboration among Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera Software, and W3C, who are called "stewards" of the Web Platform project.

William Hamilton Page

Painter's Roman (1870), cut in association with Darius Wells; Adobe's virtual type version is called Juniper.

Gothic Tuscan Pointed (1859); Adobe's virtual type version is called Ironwood, while the Wooden Type Fonts version is called Tuscan Italian Round.


Adobe Originals

The Adobe Originals program began in 1989, when Sumner Stone hired Carol Twombly and Robert Slimbach to create a new series of type families for Adobe Systems.

Adobe PageMill

Adobe Systems bought Macromedia in 2005 and therefore owns Dreamweaver, now called Adobe Dreamweaver.

Axis41

Axis41 has been a partner with Adobe since 2011, developed web elements for Outside Magazine, redesigned the branding for Datatel and Sunguard when they merged and to form Elucian, and became the agency of record for Iron Mountain in 2012.

Bill Hambrecht

Hambrecht is also credited as one of the first major investors to recognize the value of technology and biotech companies, helping to take Apple Computer, Genentech and Adobe Systems public in the 1980s with his earlier San Francisco-based company Hambrecht & Quist, which he founded in 1968 and which also backed the IPOs of Netscape, MP3.com, and Amazon.com.

Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group

Adobe Systems was subsequently the subject of controversy in when it was revealed that the firm had voluntarily adopted the CDS in Adobe Photoshop, preventing Photoshop from processing some images of currency.

Digital studio

:The five computers in the FSU Digital Studio each have Microsoft Office 2007 and Adobe Design Premium CS5 installed.

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation involves a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.

In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation is a class-action lawsuit on behalf of over 64,000 employees of Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm (the last two are subsidiaries of Disney) against their employer alleging that their wages were repressed due to alleged agreements between their employers not to hire employees from their competitors.

Microsoft Silverlight

Even though Microsoft was officially collaborating on the Moonlight project, Bruce Chizen, who was CEO of Adobe Systems at the time, which sells the competing proprietary Flash platform, questioned "the commitment of Microsoft to keep the Silverlight platform compatible with other OS besides Windows".

NextLabs

NextLabs partners with industry leaders such as IBM, SAP, Microsoft, Adobe, HP, PTC, and Siemens, and with global SIs such as HCL AXON, Deloitte and CSC to bring to market industry-focused information risk management (IRM) solutions.

Nick DeMartino

In addition, DeMartino initiated AFI-related sponsorships with Adobe Systems Systems), Radius, Macromedia, Claris, Avid Technology, Sony, and many others, establishing the AFI as the "go-to" place to use new media production tools.

School of Advertising Art

As it is a graphic design college, all students are required to use their own Macintosh laptop computers using the leading provided computer graphics software, such as Adobe Systems's Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and InDesign; .

Worldwide Partners

WPI currently has over 20 clients being serviced worldwide by partner agencies, including Avon, Caterpillar, Columbia Sportswear, Adobe, Guardian Industries, Wal-Mart, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Pfizer, Group Santander and Novartis.