General Info

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems develops and markets a full line of desktop publishing software. The company s flagship product is Adobe Acrobat Reader, a tool that displays portable document format files on the Internet and is distributed free of charge. Its digital imagining, Web publishing and print publishing software includes Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, Elements and Album. Adobe's offerings also include GoLive Web design and electronic book publishing software, as well as the Adobe InDesign, InCopy and Type Library publishing package that provides professional layout and design applications. The company s professional services group offers implementation, training and support for all Adobe products. It is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has offices throughout North America, South America, Mexico, Asia, Australia and Europe. Adobe Systems maintains one of its additional locations in San Francisco.