Adobe Photoshop and Adobe GoLive Also Named as Eddy Award Finalists

San Jose, Calif., (January 5, 2000) (Nasdaq:ADBE)--Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that Adobe® After Effects® and Adobe InDesign® software took top honors in their respective categories at the 15th annual Macworld Editors’ Choice Awards. These tools are tightly integrated with Adobe’s other award-winning applications including Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Premiere® and comprise one of the industry’s most popular, comprehensive solutions for professional Web design, dynamic media creation and print publishing.

Adobe products won Eddy Awards in these categories :
Best Digital Video Software —Adobe After Effects 4.1
Best Publishing Software —Adobe InDesign 1.0

In addition, Adobe GoLive 4.0 Software was a finalist in the Best Web Authoring Software category, Adobe Acrobat was a finalist in the Best Publishing Software category and Adobe Photoshop 5.5 with ImageReady® 2.0 was a finalist in the Best Web Graphics Software category.

The prestigious Eddys were awarded by Macworld Magazine, the leading Macintosh monthly and a pioneer in the computer publications industry. Presented during an event that kicked off the Macworld Exposition being held this week in San Francisco, the Eddy Awards are the Macintosh industry’s highest distinction for breakthrough product development and technological innovation and are presented to products in 26 categories. Macworld’s editors and lab team reviewed hundreds of new products evaluating each for technological innovation, quality, performance, user friendliness, and value to arrive at the finalist list.

"Adobe strives to support its users with innovative, platform-independent products, but we are especially pleased to be recognized for excellence on the Macintosh. The Mac is still the platform of choice for many of our graphics professional customers," said Bruce Chizen, executive vice president worldwide products and marketing for Adobe Systems.

"The 1999 selection process was particularly challenging since we had the largest number of new products to evaluate in the past five years," said Macworld VP of Content/Editor-in-chief, Andrew Gore. "This tremendous showing of innovation is a clear indication of the Macintosh market’s renewed strength and energy," stated Gore.

A complete list of the 1999 Macworld Eddy Award finalists and winners can be found online at macworld.com. Winners will be published in the March 2000 issue of Macworld magazine.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Founded in 1982, Adobe Systems builds award-winning software solutions for Web and print publishing. Its graphic design, imaging, dynamic media, and authoring tools enable customers to create, publish and deliver visually-rich content for various types of media. The company's products are used by Web and graphic designers, professional publishers, document-intensive organizations, business users, and consumers. Adobe is the fourth largest U.S.-based personal software company, with annual revenues of $1 billion. It employs over 2,400 employees worldwide and has operations in North America, Europe, the Pacific Rim, Japan and Latin America. Adobe's worldwide headquarters are in San Jose, California and its Web site is located at www.adobe.com.