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The company's products were integrated into Adobe's product line later in the year, and re-branded as Adobe PageMaker and Adobe After Effects Aldus also owned the TIFF file format, transferring ownership to Adobe. In August 1994, the company acquired Aldus Corporation, a Seattle-based software company credited with creating the desktop publishing industry with its PageMaker software. Adobe has not released the financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.Īdobe's first acquisition was Emerald City Software in March 1990. Of the companies that Adobe has acquired, 18 were based in the United States. The company has acquired 25 companies, purchased stakes in five, and divested six, most of which were software companies. Apple Computer licensed PostScript in 1985 for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution.

In 1982, John Warnock and Charles Geschke left Xerox PARC and established Adobe to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California.