Adobe lets you pay now and later and later again  — 9:26 AM on
May 13, 2013  The time was January 1995. The smooth, Philly soul
and pleated pants of Boyz II Men ruled the airwaves. I had
finally, seven months after ending my academic wanderings,
wrangled a full-time job. I owned a miniature pig named Elvis
the Tiny King. Life was good.  But enough about my porcine past.
That first job was at a small ad agency. I was their lone
copywriter, a complement to their lone art director. Yes, much
loneliness was afoot. Not surprisingly, the agency was a Mac
shop. I believe I had the privilege of piloting a Centris 660AV
while my graphics-crunching cohort had some form of Quadra,
possibly a 610. Our DTP weapons of (very limited) choice:
QuarkXPress 3.1 for page layout, Photoshop 3.0 (the first with
layers) for image editing, and Illustrator 5.5 for recreating
vector logos from client-provided GIF files.  This triumvirate
of print production would remain de rigueur for several years.
Sure, Adobe had PageMaker, which it