History
2008-2010: New challenges
| 2010 | WinSoft International released new product range: - Adobe CS5 products (Design Standard, Design Premium, Web Premium, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Photoshop Extended) for Middle Eastern, North African and Greek markets. - FileMaker 11 (FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Pro Advanced, FileMaker Server and FileMaker Server Advanced) for Central and East European, Middle Eastern, North African and Indian markets. - Tasmeem 5 for Adobe InDesign CS5. - ScribeDOOR for Adobe CS5 products (ScribeDOOR for CS5, ScribeDOOR for Illustrator CS5 and ScribeDOOR for InDesign CS5). WinSoft International's integration of Algoba Systems into the company holdings (editor of specialized solutions for the creation, management and editing of on-line and desktop photo libraries, media libraries and image banks) WinSoft International organizes an Arabic Typographic Design Contest. The contest has been selected by UNESCO to participate in "2010: International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures". |
| 2009 | WinSoft International released ScribeDOOR for Illustrator and InDesign, plug-in to edit and treat text in 21 complex languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and many Indian scripts. WinSoft International released FileMaker Pro in 7 versions: Czech, Polish, Turkish, Middle East - English, Middle East - French, Central Europe - English and Asia - English versions. WinSoft International released a new Tasmeem font : Nastaliq, based on Persian writing tradition |
| 2008 | WinSoft International released FileMaker Pro, Asia - English version.
WinSoft International released Adobe Acrobat 9 and Creative Suite 4 for Greek, Middle Eastern and North African users WinSoft International released the new Tasmeem 4 with a complete high-quality font range WinSoft International launches an eStore to allow users to purchase all its products online all over the world and discover our latest products and promotions. |
2006-2007: Reaching New Heights with FileMaker, Inc. & Tasmeem™
| 2007 | WinSoft International released the Turkish version of FileMaker Pro.
WinSoft International continued to expand the Adobe product range in 19 languages WinSoft International continued to expand the FileMaker product range (FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Pro Advanced, FileMaker Server and FileMaker Server Advanced) with releases in 6 versions |
| 2006 | WinSoft International released Tasmeem: the Spirit of Arabic Writing, the most comprehensive Arabic typesetting and design tool in the industry. WinSoft International entered a partnership agreement with FileMaker Inc., of Santa Clara, CA, a fully owned subsidiary of Apple Computer Inc.(AAPL), for the adaptation, localization, and commercialization of their database product line on the Eastern European and Middle Eastern markets. WinSoft International released Extended English, Czech and Polish versions of FileMaker Pro. |
1993-2005: Big Business with Adobe Systems Incorporated
| 2005 | WinSoft International continued to develop and extend the product range with 11 language releases: Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian and Turkish. |
| 2000 | WinSoft International extended its coverage to the Central and Eastern European markets (Adobe CE products). Releases of PageMaker, Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, InCopy and Illustrator for this market. |
| 1995 | Adobe Systems Incorporated acquired Aldus Corp. Agreement between
WinSoft International and Adobe to extend the localization and distribution contract
to Photoshop. Successive releases of PageMaker, Photoshop, Acrobat and InDesign for the Middle Eastern market (Adobe ME products). |
| 1994 | WinSoft International made the decision to address the Windows environment by releasing PageMaker Arabic and Hebrew versions for Windows. |
| 1993 | WinSoft International formed an agreement with Aldus Corp to adapt PageMaker into Arabic and Hebrew. |
1987-1991: Extending the Enterprise
| 1991 | WinSoft International created Language Kits in Central and Eastern European languages, Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew, in order to take advantage of the multilingual capacities of WinSoft International's products in Western operating systems. |
| 1990 | WinSoft International formed an agreement with Symbiotic to release light versions of WinText, WinFile, WinView and WinType in the French market. |
| 1988 | Release of WinFile (a multilingual file management software program). |
| 1987 | Creation of the first multilingual word-processing software WinText, followed by the release of WinView (a multilingual outliner/presentation software program) and WinMath (a scientific application for drawing and studying mathematical functions and curves). |
1986: The First Big Break
| 1986 | An agreement was formed between Apple Computer Middle East Africa and WinSoft International: creation of an Arabic version of WinType, to be bundled with every Macintosh sold in the Middle East. |
1985: Getting started
| 1985 | WinSoft International was founded by Pierre Blangero, Kamel Gaddas and François Peccoud.
WinSoft International released WinType (a typing tutor software program for Macintosh) |
