Serif (company)

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[edit] Serif Europe Ltd.

This image of the Island of Sodor was produced using Serif DrawPlus

Serif Europe Ltd. are a software company based in Nottingham, UK. Founded in 1987, it produces a range of low-cost desktop publishing and graphics products including PagePlus (desktop publishing), DrawPlus (vector graphics) and PhotoPlus (photo editing). Serif's first success was the release of PagePlus 2.0 in 1993, which was lauded by Seybold Reports for being the first sub-$500(US) DTP program to support full process color separation.

Other products include MoviePlus (Movie editing), ImpactPlus (3D Design), WebPlus (Web Design), PanoramaPlus, PopArtPlus, and MontagePlus.

Their webdesign tool called WebPlus has achieved a grassroots following amongst those seeking an alternative to Adobe Corporation's Dreamweaver.

[edit] Serif.Net

Serif Systems Limited [1] a company based in Morley in Leeds, West Yorkshire specialising in Support for Design/Marketing professionals using industry standard design tools such as Adobe Corporation, Quark Inc., Macromedia. Tools which have a history going back to Aldus Pagemaker 1985 Adobe Type Manager 1986 when desktop publishing was in its infancy and typographers where still setting fonts manually.