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In December 1982, two computer scientists walked out of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center with an idea that Xerox didn’t want. Within three years, they had changed how documents were printed, how type was set, and how designers worked. Within a decade, they had built the software infrastructure of the entire creative industry.

This is the history of Adobe Systems, from the garage in Los Altos where PostScript was built, through the LaserWriter and the desktop publishing revolution, the font wars with Apple and Microsoft, the creation of Photoshop and PDF, a hostile takeover attempt, a kidnapping, the $3.4 billion Macromedia acquisition, the rise and collapse of Flash, and the subscription transition that nearly destroyed the company’s relationship with its own users before becoming one of the most successful business transformations in software history.

PostScript, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects, and eventually The Creative Cloud. These tools moved an entire industry from paste-up tables to the digital desktop, and from the digital desktop to the cloud.

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