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CS, PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier, Flash, Dreamweaver, Scene 7, Macromedia Studio, After Effects, Go Live: 542.1 mill

Acrobat, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Flex: 274.1 mill

Omniture: 98.4 mill

PostScript, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Captivate, Macromedia FreeHand: 47.3 mill

PDF & Flash Platform Revenue: 46.1 mill

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I look at this list and I am thrilled that I don't have to use a single one of these. I'm not even friends with anyone that does, except a couple of photographers.

I'd love to know how much of the 46.1 million of the "PDF & Flash Platform Revenue" and the 274.1 million of the "Acrobat, LiveCycle, ColdFusion, Flex" is purely PDF related. How many people are buying Adobe Acrobat just to edit PDFs, documents that should be source code but aren't?

I just hate it when digital things become analog (or virtually analog, like PDF) and I doubly hate it that tools get built for editing the now analog digital document. Like OCR for Faxes, UGH!

Newest piece from The Onion: "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Use Adobe Products"

Damn, none of the big stuff (the creative products) seem like particularly easy markets to compete. Acrobat might represent the best opportunity, but that thing is ingrained.

Do you have a source for your numbers? I've heard it being much more skewed towards Acrobat, so I'm curious if that's just old data or what.

It's the latest data from their q4'10 earnings report, specifically this pdf http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/pdfs/q410_ir_da...

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