About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Adobe Systems, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Bitstream Inc., Charles Reed, Monotype Corporation, Alexander Wilson, American Type Founders, Ludlow Typograph, Ascender Corporation, FSI FontShop International, Type foundry, International Typeface Corporation, Louis Pouch e, MyFonts, Hoefler & Frere-Jones, Cape Arcona Type Foundry, Emigre, Intertype Corporation, Letraset, Scriptorium Fonts, Campotype, Berthold, Continental Type Founders Association, Deberny & Peignot, Bauer Type Foundry, House Industries, Font Bureau, Golding & Company, VEB Typoart, Binny & Ronaldson, Marder, Luse, & Co., Western Type Foundry, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, Typotheque, Stephenson Blake, P22 type foundry, Blambot, Cincinnati Type Foundry, Adobe Type, Gebr. Klingspor, Elsner+Flake, Grafotechna, Fonderie Olive. Excerpt: Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) ( -bee) is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. Adobe was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. The company name Adobe comes from Adobe Creek in Los Altos, California, which ran behind the house of one of the company's founders. Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in December 2005, which added newer software products and platforms such as Coldfusion, Dreamweaver, Flash and Flex to its product portfolio. As of 2010, Adobe Systems has 9,11...
