• At the Comdex Fall trade show PDF wins the ‘best of Comdex’ award. The Acrobat Reader costs 50 $ while the personal and network versions of Adobe Acrobat Distiller are a measly 695$ and 2,495$ respectively.

• The Quadra 950 is Apple’s new top of the line Macintosh.

• Around 100 pictures can be stored on a Kodak Photo CD in 6 different resolutions. Many repro houses offer scanning services with Photo CD output. The system never becomes a big success because the images are stored in RGB and aren’t necessarily color corrected.

• FrameMaker 3, a page layout application that is optimized for long documents, also becomes available for Windows. The intitial release ran on Solaris and Apollo systems and from 1990 onwards, Macintosh support was added. In 1995 Adobe acquires the product.

• Scitex buys Leaf systems. A year later their first digital back for Hasselblad or Mamiya medium format cameras is introduced. It has a resolution of 4 megapixels and costs around $37000.

• Artwork Systems is founded. Their first product is ArtPro, an editor for the pre-production of labels and packaging. 1000 licenses are sold within the first 4 years and 8000 get sold by 2007, turning the company into a major packaging software vendor.

 

 

<1991 - 1993>