John Warnock, one of the two founders of this brand, named the brand inspired by a bay called "Adobe" located in the back of his house.
Adobe Systems is the world's largest graphics and media software company headquartered in California, USA.
John Edward Warnock (born October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist and businessman best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke. Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two years and chairman and CEO for his remaining sixteen years at the company. Although he retired as CEO in 2000, he still co-chaired the board with Geschke.
Adobe was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke with a capital of $2.5 million. Their first project was the PostScript page description language for Xerox PARC. The first Adobe Office was located at Marine Way in Mountain Wiev, CA. Adobe's corporate logo was designed by Marva Warnock, the wife of John Warnock, who is also a graphic designer.
Adobe's first products following PostScript were digital fonts, starting with Type 1 fonts, for which it owns the naming rights. Apple developed TrueType fonts, a competitive format that it later licensed to Microsoft. TrueType had certain advantages: It gave full control over the pixel layout created by the font's outline, along with full scalability. A few months later, Adobe released the Type 1 specification, and soon after, the font management software "Adobe Type Manager", which allows WYSIWYG proportioning of Type 1 fonts on-screen, such as full TrueType (though not full pixel-grade control).
But all of these attacks were too late to thwart the rise of TrueType, which quickly became a standard for businesses and the average windows user. Type 1 remained the standard in the graphics and print market. In 1996, the company announced the OpenType format together with Microsoft. And in 2003 Adobe finished converting its library of Type 1 fonts to OpenType.
After releasing PostScript in the mid-1980s, Adobe entered the consumer software market with Adobe Illustrator, a vector-based drawing program for the Apple Macintosh. Illustrator was the logical commercialization of font-development software they developed in-house. It also helped increase the popularity of PostScript-enabled laser printers. Unlike MacDraw (the standard Macintosh vector drawing program at the time), Illustrator defined all shapes with more flexible Bézier curves, providing precision not seen in other programs.
In 1989, Adobe introduced its flagship product: Adobe Photoshop for the Macintosh. Although Photoshop 1.0 had competitors, it was very stable and well designed, and Adobe had the resources to market it well. This combination allowed Photoshop to dominate the market in a short time. In December 2005, Adobe added Coldfusion, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Flex products to its portfolio.
They invented the PDF
In 1991, Adobe's co-founder Dr. John Warnock marked the revolution from the printed document to the digital document with an idea he named The Camelot Project. Aim; It was to ensure that anyone could receive documents from any application, send electronic versions of these documents wherever they wanted, and view and print these documents on any machine. Camelot was developed as a PDF towards the end of 1992. Today, this file format has become a trusted format by businesses all over the world.