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Adobe Systems is a computer software company, located in San Jose, California, most well known for the development of Photoshop, Acrobat Reader, and the Portable Document Format (PDF)

Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American multinational computer software company. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. It is best known for Photoshop, an image editing software, Acrobat Reader, the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as its successor Adobe Creative Cloud.

Adobe was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language.

As of 2015, Adobe Systems has about 15,000 employees worldwide.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems

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Open Source PDF reader for windows as an alternative to Adobe reader

With the latest javascript vulnerabilities in Adobe reader and bloat it has aquired over the years, I've been thinking of moving the network I'm in charge of to a different product for PDF reading on Windows. The ideal PDF reader should be something…
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Suggestions for free/cheap asset/patch management software (Adobe, Java, etc)

I am using WSUS for Microsoft patching but would like something that will inventory and patch Adobe, Java, Firefox, Quicktime, etc. I have used Lumension in the past and it was OK but it is too expensive. I have used Kaseya and don't like it.…
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Adobe Connect Add In

I am a fairly low level administrator in a large enterprise environment where Adobe Connect is widely deployed. We are currently upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 and the current group policy prevents users from executing files that are not…
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Set default application for file extension

I try to set the default application for .pdf files depending on the users group with a GPO. We have Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and Adobe Acrobat DC installed on a Windows Server 2012 R2 terminal server. There's a group for each application. My attempt…
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Managing applications like Acrobat Reader and Flash player via Windows GPO?

Without using additional software, how are people managing software like Acrobat Reader and Flash Player in a Windows domain? I can deploy these applications via GPO software installation. Am I looking at creating my own .msi packages and updating…
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How to correctly deploy Adobe Reader 9.1

I have recently tried to deploy Adobe Reader 9.1 onto our network here. (SBS 2003 server and XP Workstations) I followed the instructions for the extraction of the installer and .msi and then creating a .mst transform file to set custom options.…
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How can I change the default location of the Adobe Premiere Pro (creative cloud) media cache location?

Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows machines stores its 'media cache' files in the %appdata% directory. On our network, this is redirected to a server share, and consumes significant amounts of storage space, while suffering increased latency for the…
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Issues with setting "Make Reader the default PDF viewer" with Adobe Reader XI

I do a silent deployment of Adobe Reader XI and the setup doesn't set Adobe Reader as default PDF Reader. I can set the default Reader manually but it has to be done automatically. I tried: msiexec /i "AcroRead.msi" /q…
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Is it legal to import software from the USA?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We are a small but global group of companies. We have an office in the USA and we have a dollar account. How legal is it to buy USA softawe for use in the USA and UK? We use…
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Moving from ColdFusion 8 to ColdFusion 10 - Migration Fails

After having made several attempts to migrate from a ColdFusion 8 Standard server to a ColdFusion 10 Standard server, it feels like I am "almost" there. I'm using the 64 bit installer from Adobe's website. I'm using a Windows Server 2008 (64 bit)…
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Contribute CS5 Connection to Apache2 Server SFTP issues

We moved a few websites to an Apache2 setup and have since not been able to connect to the server with SFTP. I get a password / username error. There is no load on the server. SSH is configured. Permissions are correct. I can access it via WinSCP,…
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How to "slipstream" Acrobat 10.1.1 into Acrobat 10 install point?

I want to roll out Acrobat 10.1.1. So, I want to "slipstream" 10.1.1 into my install point. I do not want to roll out 10 and then roll out 10.1.1 update. Any clues on how I can do this? Many thanks!
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What is a good, cheap, solution for managing patches over say 100 seperate domains

We are an IT support provider and I am looking at improving our existing systems. We have WSUS in place for Windows Updates but we are looking for the cheapest and quickest way possible of updating programs like Adobe Flash, Reader, and Java. Any…
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Version Control for print designers and editors

I've looked hard at other threads similar to this, but still can't find anyone with a good recommendation for a cross-platform (OSX, Windows) team workflow in InDesign that is easy and doesn't require users to work directly off a network share. Does…
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Flash Player EOL for Standalone flash applications

I understand that Adobe Flash is reaching it's end of life by the end of 2020 with all browsers blocking it etc. Microsoft also says that Microsoft will also take steps to remove Flash from the Windows operating system But my concern is not flash…
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