Adobe has introduced new industry-standard audience metrics that are now available through its Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS). The metrics provide users with a clear method to measure and report audience readership across digital magazine editions.
Agfa Graphics' Asanti wide-format production software now supports the latest Adobe PDF Print Engine technology (APPE). Asant was first shown at the Fespa 2013 in London, and makes its North American debut at SGIA in October.
Adobe Systems has completed its acquisition of Neolane, a provider of cross-channel campaign management technology. Neolane will become the sixth solution in the Adobe Marketing Cloud, complementing the existing Analytics, Target, Social, Experience Manager and Media Optimizer offerings.
Adobe Systems has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Neolane, a leader in cross-channel campaign management technology, headquartered in Paris, for approximately $600 million in cash. Neolane will become a sixth solution in the Adobe Marketing Cloud, complementing the existing Analytics, Target, Social, Experience Manager and Media Optimizer offerings.
SAN JOSE, CA—Creative Suite, the software package Adobe sells to designers, Web developers, video editors and other creative types, is giving way to an online, subscription-based model called Creative Cloud.
Goodbye, CS. Hello, CC.
This is a big step for Adobe and its customers. For one, the company is finally ditching the boxed software concept, even though it has offered downloadable versions for some time. Secondly, the move triggers a major revenue shift, from the one-and-done model of old to the subcription-based one so in vogue in recent years.
Finally, the decision indicates that connectivity is ubiquitous enough—at least for the group that spends $1,300 or more on professional software—that it can be fully and deeply integrated into the default experience.
Dov Isaacs, principal scientist at Adobe Systems, has been named the Cal Poly Graphic Communication Department’s Research Professor from Industry for the winter and spring quarters 2013. Through this program, distinguished scholars, leaders and specialists from the industry volunteer to teach and work with students and faculty on unique, cutting-edge projects defining industry applications today and in the future.
Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department will celebrate International Printing Week from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, 2013, with a lecture series, banquet and Career Day, thanks to industry sponsors committed to preserving the rich heritage of the printing industry.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions' October 2010 edition.
PDF/VT enables reliable document exchange for variable data and transactional printing. It uses the Portable Document Format (PDF) based on the existing ISO PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 standards and will simplify VDP printing in a range of environments, from desktop printers to digital production presses.
