Adobe was founded by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who had worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and left to commercialise a page description language they had developed, called PostScript. PostScript became the standard for printing and helped to start the desktop publishing revolution, along with the Apple Macintosh and the LaserWriter. The company went on to create graphic design software such as Illustrator and Photoshop, and the Portable Document Format, or PDF, introduced with Acrobat. In the 2010s, Adobe moved to a subscription model with the Creative Cloud. It is headquartered in San Jose, California, and its software is widely used in design, photography and film.
Before and after
- 1982Founding of Olympic Council of Asia
- 9 January 1982Birth of Catherine, Princess of Wales
- 13 January 1982Air Florida Flight 90
- 18 January 1982Death of Huang Xianfan
- 28 February 1982Founding of Adobe
- 8 March 1982Birth of Marjorie Estiano
- from 2 April 1982 to 3 April 1982Operation Rosary
- from 2 April 1982 to 14 June 1982Falklands War
- 22 April 1982Birth of Kaká
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