Members of Newspaper Industry Rally Around Adobe InDesign CS2 and InCopy CS2 Software

Top Integrators, ISVs, and Newspapers Adopt Adobe Solutions to Speed Production, Enhance Quality, and Streamline Cross-Media Publishing

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov. 1, 2005 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that its award-winning page design and edi­to­r­i­al soft­ware appli­ca­tions, Adobe® InDesign® soft­ware and Adobe InCopy® soft­ware, are being embraced world­wide by sys­tems inte­gra­tors and inde­pen­dent soft­ware ven­dors (ISVs) and their cus­tomers for news­pa­per pub­lish­ing. These Adobe licensed sys­tems inte­gra­tors and ISVs include: Advanced Publishing Technology; Advanced Technical Solutions, Inc. (ATS); Atex; Digital Technology International (DTI); Harris & Baseview; Managing Editor Inc. (MEI); SAXOTECH; Unisys; and WoodWing Software.

Integrators and ISVs are using Adobe’s flex­i­ble page lay­out and copy-editing soft­ware as an inte­gral part of their over­all edi­to­r­i­al, adver­tis­ing, and pag­i­na­tion solu­tions to help news­pa­pers stream­line pub­lish­ing. By offer­ing improved col­lab­o­ra­tion between edi­tors and page design­ers, the com­bined InDesign and InCopy solu­tion helps opti­mize design cre­ativ­i­ty and qual­i­ty in an effi­cient, inte­grat­ed workflow.

Newspapers Worldwide Continue to Move to InDesign and InCopy

Newspapers of all sizes have adopt­ed work­flows based on Adobe InCopy CS and InDesign CS soft­ware and are now mov­ing to InCopy CS2 and InDesign CS2. Large news­pa­pers adopt­ing sys­tems based on Adobe soft­ware include DTI cus­tomers La Nacion in Argentina, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and Star Tribune in Minneapolis/St. Paul, as well as the Guardian in the United Kingdom, a WoodWing Software cus­tomer. Medium-sized news­pa­pers, includ­ing Charleston, South Carolina’s The Post and Courier, an ATS cus­tomer, and WoodWing Software cus­tomer The Albuquerque Tribune have also imple­ment­ed solu­tions based on Adobe InCopy CS and InDesign CS. Niche news­pa­per Dose in Toronto, a Harris & Baseview cus­tomer, is plan­ning to con­vert its work­flow to Adobe InCopy CS2 and InDesign CS2 software.

“In the past, news­pa­pers had to choose between pro­duc­tiv­i­ty in man­ag­ing their infor­ma­tion with more than one per­son work­ing on a page or sto­ry at the same time, or go for a design-lead approach with a sys­tem built around a single-user desk­top pub­lish­ing application,” said Alyson Williams, mar­ket­ing direc­tor at DTI. “With pub­lish­ing sys­tems based on Adobe InCopy and InDesign, DTI has been able to give cus­tomers data­base assets and a stun­ning array of cre­ative and copy-editing tools in a sin­gle, inte­grat­ed sys­tem that saves hours each day in over­all pro­duc­tion workflow.”

Integrators, ISVs, and news­pa­per pub­lish­ers cite sev­er­al rea­sons for their move to pub­lish­ing sys­tems based on Adobe InCopy CS2 and InDesign CS2: tools that enhance design qual­i­ty; tight inte­gra­tion with oth­er com­po­nents of Adobe Creative Suite 2 such as Adobe Photoshop® CS2, Illustrator® CS2, and Acrobat® 7.0 Professional soft­ware; ease of repur­pos­ing print con­tent for elec­tron­ic deliv­ery; and robust work­flow automa­tion through XML and com­pre­hen­sive script­ing lan­guages sup­port for more effi­cient reuse of exist­ing con­tent and layouts.

“There has been a sig­nif­i­cant shift in the mar­ket toward Adobe based solutions,” said Briggs Kilborne, pres­i­dent at Harris & Baseview. “Customers want the flex­i­bil­i­ty of Adobe InDesign, Adobe InCopy, and the Adobe Creative Suite inte­grat­ed into best of breed work­flow sys­tems like IQue and Jazbox.”

Star Tribune Moves to Unified System based on Adobe Software

The Star Tribune, one of the 20 largest news­pa­pers in the United States, has imple­ment­ed a DTI sys­tem to sup­port edi­to­r­i­al and adver­tis­ing activ­i­ties. By stan­dard­iz­ing on an inte­grat­ed sys­tem, includ­ing a uni­fied data­base as well as page design and copy-editing soft­ware from Adobe, the Star Tribune is reduc­ing the resources need­ed to pro­duce the news­pa­per, while increas­ing news­pa­per qual­i­ty and efficiency.

“DTI’s inte­grat­ed sys­tem, includ­ing InDesign and InCopy soft­ware, facil­i­tates accu­ra­cy and time­li­ness of con­tent, as well as easy repur­pos­ing across media,” said Faith Christine, IT News Publishing Systems Leader at Star Tribune. “And that frees us to invest more pro­duc­tion time in the design and qual­i­ty of the product.”

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

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