Adobe 彻底改变了世人展示创意、处理信息的方式。二十五年来，公司屡获殊荣的软件和技术为人们随时随地都要进行的内容制作与交付设立了新的标准，进而对商务、娱乐和个人沟通进行了重新定义。从印刷品、视频和电影中的丰富图像到各种媒体的动态数字内容， Adobe 解决方案的影响力在业界是毋庸置疑的。任何创作、观看以及与这些信息进行交互的人，对这一点更是有切身体会。 Adobe 是全球最大、最多元化的软件公司之一，以其卓越的品质享誉世界，旗下拥有众多深受广大客户信赖和认可的软件品牌。长期以来， Adobe 成功的基础就是其创新的企业文化和工作在世界各地的优秀员工。公司在《财富》杂志 2007 年“最适合工作的公司”名单中位列第 31 位， 2005 年在“印度最适合工作的公司”中排名第 15 位。公司还通过现金和实物捐赠等方式（包括捐赠软件、无偿支持以及为非营利性组织提供软件培训）为员工居住和工作的社区作出了很大贡献。 2006 年， Adobe 推出了 Adobe Youth Voices 全球慈善计划，其中提供多媒体工具、培训计划及由青年人、教师和计划推行者组成的全球网络，以期帮助年轻人积极融入所在社区。这一计划目前正在美国、英国和印度的 37 所学校和非盈利性组织中开展。Adobe 在 1982 年就承诺要彻底改变人们展示创意与处理信息的方式，这个承诺至今未变。今天，人们在杂志、广告牌和各种广告中，或者在银幕、荧屏和数字设备上见到的大多数图像都经过 Adobe 软件的处理。 Adobe 将以创新为宗旨，继续对全世界人们创建、感知和处理信息的方式进行革新。

创新历史

Adobe 的创始人 Chuck Geschke 和 John Warnock 一致认为：排版和图形艺术将不断改变人们创作和处理信息的方式。二十世纪七十年代末，他们共事于著名的 Xerox Palo Alto 研究中心 (PARC) ，研究与设备无关的图形系统和打印。 Geschke 和 Warnock 对自己的工作将重塑计算机世界的前景兴奋不已，并最终意识到只有自己创立公司才能将他们的想法从实验室投入迅猛发展的科技市场。基于这样一个简单的理念，他们成立了 Adobe Systems Incorporated ，即：如何美观而精确地打印计算机屏幕上的文本和图像？一年后，他们推出了 Adobe ® PostScript ® 技术，提供了在纸张上打印文本和图像的全新途径，推动了桌面排版革命。有史以来，人们第一次能分毫不差地将屏幕上显示的计算机文件打印出来，所有的格式、图形和字体丝毫不变。 Adobe PostScript 的许可证发放到世界各地的打印机制造商，为他们大大节省了成本，生产力得到空前提高。今天，它仍然是打印机的核心技术。

设立行业标准

Adobe 在 PostScript 技术大获成功后，又凭借 Adobe Illustrator ® 和 Adobe Photoshop ® 软件进入桌面软件应用程序领域，令设计界的面貌焕然一新。这些突破性的应用程序重新定义了可打印图像的质量和复杂性。不久，这些优点又扩展到为视频、电影、 Web 和其他计算机设备所创作的内容。 Adobe 随后又开发出 Adobe InDesign ® 软件，震撼了整个页面排版市场，并使家喻户晓的杂志、报纸和公司品牌都得以采用综合性的现代出版工作流程。实现革新和改进计算机世界的宏图大志， Adobe 发布了 Adobe Acrobat ® 软件和 Adobe 可移植文档格式 (PDF) ，将其在桌面软件上的特长与在 PostScript 打印市场中树立的根基结合到一起。如同先前 PostScript 将文档分毫不差地打印在纸上一样， Acrobat 和 PDF 使世界各地的人们能够如预期的那样跨越计算平台和应用程序传送数字文档，彻底改变了人们合作和信息共享的方式。 Acrobat 简直是一举成名。时至今日， PDF 已成为政府和企业通过 Web 、公司内部网和电子邮件共享文档的实际标准。

服务全球客户

在出版、行政、金融服务、电信和教育等行业中的许多世界一流组织每天都在使用 Adobe 解决方案。这些客户包括 Hearst Magazines 、美国国内税务局、德意志银行、诺基亚、雅虎、加州大学洛杉矶分校 (UCLA) 、 SAP 、沃尔玛以及成千上万家其他世界一流的组织。主要的客户领域包括：

  • 知识工作者和企业： 这些企业和政府组织使用基于桌面和服务器的 Adobe 解决方案来提高生产率、增进协作和改善组织内部与外部的业务流程。
  • 创意人员和设计者： 设计师、发行商、摄影师和摄像师使用 Adobe 解决方案设计出供印刷、在线发行或者用于视频和移动设备的精彩内容，从而使品牌和产品在强敌林立的市场中脱颖而出。
  • 高端消费者： 各行各业的爱好者使用 Adobe 的流行解决方案开发、增强和传送供印刷和在各种数字设备上传播的图像和内容。
  • 合作伙伴和开发人员： Adobe 技术平台可以让开发人员、系统集成商和软件制造商构建动态应用程序，以满足对于改进信息交互的商业需求。

    • 今天， Adobe 强大的技术平台大大增强了人们创建、管理、传送和处理信息的能力。在全世界数以亿计的计算机、手机和智能设备上都已部署了免费的 Adobe Reader ®和 Flash Player 软件，它们使世界各地的人们都可以通过 Web 、企业应用程序、在线会议和数字文档对信息和内容进行处理、开展合作和采取相应的行动。

    雇主信息：

  • Adobe 在 2007 年第七次名列《财富》杂志的“ 100 家最适宜工作的公司”。
  • “ 2006 全美最受推崇公司”中排名第二的软件公司（《财富》杂志， 2006 年）。
  • 《商业周刊》 2007 年“最佳业绩 50 强”中排名第 19 。
  • 《商业周刊》 2004 年“最慈善公司”中排名第 19 （实物捐赠）和第 29 （现金捐赠）。
  • 超过 90% 的创意专业人士在桌面上装有 Adobe Photoshop 。
  • 超过 300 万的用户正在使用 Adobe Dreamweaver ® 软件。
  • 网上的 PDF 文件已达到 2.5 亿份。
  • 世界最大的 10 家 PC 制造商都在其销售的系统中预装 PDF 技术。
  • 在与 Internet 连接的台式机中，有将近 98% 安装了 Adobe ® Flash ® Player 。
  • 全世界七亿台以上的联网 PC 和设备上都安装了 Adobe Reader 和 Flash Player 软件。
  • Adobe 的收入一半以上来自美国境外。
  • 总部美国加州圣何塞
  • www.adobe.com
  • 创建时间1982
  • 股票代号ADBE （纳斯达克）
  • ADOBE 2005 财年收入25.75 亿美元（财年截止日期： 2006 年 12 月 1 日）
  • 业界公认的 Adobe ® 技术平台

    • Adobe 北京办事处 中国北京建国门外大街 1 号中国国际贸易中心西楼 309 (100004)www.adobe.com.cn, www.adobe.com Adobe 、 Adobe 徽标、 Acrobat 、 Flash 、 Illustrator 、 InDesign 、 Photoshop 、 PostScript 和 Reader 是 Adobe Systems Incorporated 在美国和 / 或其它国家 / 地区的注册商标或商标。所有其他商标均为其各自所有者拥有。

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    Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For more than two decades, the company's award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies.

    History of Innovation

    Adobe founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock shared a vision for publishing and graphic arts that would forever change how people create and engage with information. The two men met in the late 1970s while working at the renowned Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where they researched device-independent graphic systems and printing. Excited by the potential of their work to reshape computing, Geschke and Warnock eventually realized that the only way to take their ideas from the lab to the burgeoning technology market would be to create their own company.

    In 1982, they founded Adobe Systems Incorporated on a simple premise: how could text and images on a computer screen translate beautifully and accurately into print? A year later, they helped launch the desktop publishing revolution by introducing Adobe ® PostScript ® technology, providing a radical new approach to printing text and images on paper. For the first time, a computer file could be printed exactly as it appeared on screen, with all formatting, graphics and fonts intact. Adobe PostScript was licensed to printer manufacturers worldwide and delivered unprecedented cost savings and productivity enhancements. It continues to be a core technology on printers today.

    Setting Industry Standards

    Building on its success with PostScript technology, Adobe expanded into desktop software applications with Adobe Illustrator ® and Adobe Photoshop ® software — and the design industry was never the same. These groundbreaking applications redefined the quality and complexity of images that could be created for print, and later extended those benefits to content created for video, film, web, and alternative computing devices. Adobe InDesign ® software followed, shaking up the page layout market and enabling household-name magazines, newspapers, and corporate brands to adopt modern, integrated publishing workflows.

    Furthering its vision to reinvent and improve computing, Adobe released Adobe Acrobat ® software and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), combining its expertise in desktop software with its roots in PostScript printing. Acrobat and PDF revolutionized collaboration and information sharing by enabling people around the world to deliver digital documents exactly as intended across computing platforms and applications — much as PostScript had done on paper. Acrobat achieved quick success, and today PDF is the de facto standard for governments and businesses everywhere sharing documents across the web, corporate intranets, and e-mail.

    Serving Customers Worldwide

    Adobe solutions are used daily by many of the world ' s leading organizations in a range of industries, such as publishing, government, financial services, telecommunications, and education. Customers include Hearst Magazines, the United States Internal Revenue Service, Deutsche Bank, Nokia, Yahoo! Inc., University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), SAP, Wal-Mart, and thousands of other leading organizations world?wide. Primary customer segments include:

  • Knowledge Workers and Enterprises: Businesses and government organizations use Adobe desktop and server-based solutions to improve productivity, collaboration, and business processes inside and outside the organization.
  • Creatives and Designers: With Adobe solutions, designers, publishers, photographers, and videographers are making brands and products stand out in crowded markets by designing compelling content for delivery in print, online, for video, and on mobile devices.
  • High-end Consumers: A wide variety of enthusiasts use Adobe ' s popular solutions to develop, enhance, and deliver images and content in print and across a variety of digital devices.
  • Partners and Developers: Adobe ' s technology platform enables developers, systems integrators, and software manufacturers to build dynamic applications that address business demand for improved interaction with information.

    • Employer Information

  • Headquarters San Jose , California
  • www.adobe.com
  • FounDED 1982
  • Stock Symbol
  • ADBE (Nasdaq)
  • ADobE FIScAl 2007 rEvEnuES
  • US$3.158 billion (FYE Nov. 30, 2007)
  • More than 90% of creative professionals have Adobe Photoshop on their desktops.
  • Over 250 million pDF files exist on the web. 1
  • Adobe Systems Incorporated
  • The world ' s top 10 pc manufacturers ship their systems with technology pre-installed.
  • Its acquisition of Macromedia, Inc. in 2005 — developer of the ubiquitous Flash ® technology and a pioneer in multimedia and web development — Adobe expanded its strong technology foundation and portfolio of customer solutions.

    • Building on this legacy and looking to the future, Adobe is committed to revolutionizing how the world engages with ideas and information. Under the leadership of Shantanu Narayen, appointed Adobe ' s Chief Executive Officer in 2007, Adobe is poised to meet the growing challenge of enabling customer engagement. As organizations strive to inspire deeper connections with their own audiences, Adobe will continue to deliver technologies that help make engagement a reality.

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