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If Adobe designed the Creative Suite package, what did Adobe use to design there stuff?

I'm confused when it comes down to the whole Graphic Design thing. What was the industry standard before Adobe CS package? Were there every one? I would love to know how they designed there stuff before they even made Adobe Creative Suite reality.

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1. mm using an IDE?? using C++ ? C# , guess.
2. Most likely C++ or C# Nick
3. Programmers in little dark rooms wrote the code that runs in the background that we see as a graphical user interface. They're geniuses that make our lives easier!
4. In essence as the eighties started the industry standard was photostat machines and rubber cement -- most design was being done on paste-ups -- boards with columns of text and photos of images -- hand drawn or photographic -- pasted together on blue guidelines the photostat machines didn't pick up. As the eighties ended you had Adobe Photoshop and Pagemaker, Quark Xpress and a couple of Macromedia products for graphics. Autodesk was already out there but they have always been for a slightly more specialized audience than designers. Quark Xpress has not been updated as regularly as adobe products -- but it's still out there. Otherwise Adobe pretty much has the field to itself -- Flash uses a lot of technology they BOUGHT from Macromedia. While this is not always a good thing -- I despise Illustrator, always have, and since the purchase of Macromedia brought them Freehand which they've let languish and which I preferred I've fallen in love with the Open Source Inkscape which is quite good -- they are profoundly different from what happens in Redmond, because there were proprietary standards in the printing and graphics industry when they started, which they have always (unlike a certain OS-maker which likes to complain about theft of its intellectual property) been quite good about licensing. Economics, in other words, has given Adobe a virtual monopoly, and access to ALL the technology of ALMOST all the players when the use of computers on graphics desktops began. It has been a player from the very beginning, it is also a successor firm to many of the other players, and the Creative Suite is simply an assemblage of what were already industry standards (mostly).
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