They named the company Adobe after a creek that ran behind Warnock’s house in California.
Dr Warnock was president of Adobe for his first two years and chairman and CEO for his remaining 16 years at Adobe.
Warnock has pioneered the development of world-renowned graphics, publishing, web and electronic document technologies that have revolutionized the field of publishing and visual communication.
In 1983 Adobe Systems Inc, gave a first glimpse of Postscript, its revolutionary page description language and also the PageMaker, Apple were positioned to be central to the development of desktop publishing.
Stockholders approved the merger of Aldus Corp and Adobe Systems Inc on August 31, 1994. It united the two driving forces behind desktop publishing software.
In 2005, Adobe Systems acquired it competitor Macromedia Inc, originator of Flash technology. With this technology, Adobe pursued a pricing technology strategy similar to the one employed for its Acrobat product line.
The company first offered an online version of its Acrobat software in 2008, which allows adding animation and video to documents.
History of Adobe System Inc
