Know More About Adobe Desktop Publishing SoftwareAdobe desktop publishing Software is one of the leading graphics and desktop publishing software used in professional desktop publishing. Adobe desktop publishing software are produced by Adobe Systems. The name collectively represents a group of software used for desktop publishing. These softwares are; Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe illustrator and Adobe InDesign. Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop is sometimes known only as Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing software, developed and published by Adobe Systems. Currently it is the leader of the commercial bitmap and image manipulation market. Adobe Photoshop is also the flagship product of Adobe Systems. The proof for its popularity is that it has been called an industry standard for graphics professionals. Originally, it was designed for editing images needed in paper-based printing industry. Adobe Photoshop is still being used for a variety of other professional and amateur purposes. Adobe PageMaker Adobe PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program introduced by Adobe systems (then known as Aldus Corporation) in 1985. It was initially introduced for the Apple Macintosh and soon it was also introduced in its PC version as well. Adobe PageMaker works on Adobe Systems' Post Script page description language. Adobe Systems acquired Aldus as well as PageMaker in 1994. Currently PageMaker 7.0 is being used all over the world. It was released on July 9, 2001. Although there have been some updates that were released during that time for MAC and PC. PageMaker was awarded a SPA Excellence in Software Award for Best New Use of a Computer in 1986. Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based drawing program which is developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. It is coded in the C++ programming language. It was first developed for Apple Macintosh in the year 1986. It was developed as a commercialized version of Adobe's in house post script file format. Right now it is proving to be very popular due to its new version CS3. Its release was considered a gamble because Apple didn't have a big market share at that time. Adobe InDesign Adobe systems produced another desktop publishing software known as Adobe InDesign. It is coded in the C++ programming language. It was launched in the market as a competitor to Quark Xpress. At first it didn't attract many users but afterwards it picked up a little when it was clubbed together with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat in the Creative Suite series released by Adobe. Its latest version CS3 was launched in April 2007. Adobe desktop publishing software are currently very popular. In fact, Adobe desktop publishing software are currently the best available software and the leader in the desktop publishing software market. |