Industry Hails Adobe Creative Suite 3

Industry Hails Adobe Creative Suite 3

April 16, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Design and Web Editions (see separate press release), with major industry players praising Adobe’s expanded and revolutionary creative software line-up. Apple, HP, Intel, Nokia, and Xerox join AIGA, the professional association for design, in welcoming Adobe Creative Suite 3.

A customer-inspired release, Adobe Creative Suite 3 presents an unprecedented variety of integrated configurations and stand-alone products, with comprehensive support for the most cutting-edge workflows for any design discipline. The Adobe Creative Suite 3 family empowers designers worldwide to anticipate customer needs, maintain competitive advantage, and venture in new directions to fulfill their creative vision.

“Design is more critical than ever as a means of channeling creativity to create value and innovation for business. The opportunity and challenges for design are now being driven by businesses’ needs for continuous innovation,” said Richard Grefé, executive director of AIGA. “With Adobe Creative Suite 3, Adobe has risen to the challenge as a partner of the creative community, listening, observing and anticipating the needs of the design professional in moving communication into new media, into motion, into multi-dimensional realms with clarity, impact and effectiveness.”

“The next generation of creative tools that our customers have been eagerly anticipating are here with the new Adobe Creative Suite 3 running on powerful Intel-based Apple Macs,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “We can’t wait to see the amazing projects that our customers will create with these latest technologies from Adobe and Apple.”

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