Zoner, Inc.
Zoner, Inc. is a producer of (mainly) graphics software. The company was founded in 1993 in (Brno in the Czech Republic). Its main products are Zoner Photo Studio (digital photography), Zoner Draw (vector graphics), and Zoner Barcode Studio (barcoding).
In addition, Zoner Software produces the Zoner Clip Art collection of vector images and the animation program Zoner GIF Animator. Until recently, it produced the multimedia file manager Zoner Media Explorer; due to its move towards digital photography, this series is now named Zoner Photo Studio.
History 1993 Zebra for DOS 1.0 (bitmap editor)
1994 Zebra for Windows 1.5
1996 Zoner Callisto 2 (vector graphics editor)
1998 Four distributors (2x USA, Canada, Great Britain) Zoner Context 4 Zoner Callisto 3 * Finalist Best of Show award at CeBIT '98* Zoner Callisto series is renamed to Zoner Draw for international market
1999 February - French Zoner Callisto 3 (localized by WSKA Editions France) July - boxed sales in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia. Communique Software becomes new distributor for USA August - expansion to Slovakia, Bratislava
2000 April - CZ Zoner Callisto 4 - contains Zoner GIF Animator 4, Zoner Media Explorer 4 and Zoner Viewer 4.
2001 US office founded, in vicinity of Atlanta, Georgia, USA June - Zoner Draw 3 CD Label Edition released by CD LabelCorp Inc. September - Zoner Draw 4 Plus (with Minolta Page Scope Image, languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Czech)
2002 July - Zoner Media Explorer 4.5 (including client for sending photos to FotoStar Südcolor photo labs) August - Zoner Media Explorer 5 November - Media Explorer 5 Professional and Callisto 4 with Czech DELL computers
2003 January - English Zoner Media Explorer 5 March * Czech Zoner Media Explorer 5 gains ability sending photos to Fotolab, a. s. * 11,000 licences sold in past 5-month period Czech Zoner Media Explorer 6
2004 June - the Zoner Media Explorer line begins to take on the new name Zoner Photo Studio with the release of the English and German Zoner Photo Studio 6 13 October* Czech Zoner Photo Studio 7* Czech Zoner Callisto 5
External Links www.zoner.com (Zoner, Inc.) www.zoner.cz (ZONER software, s. r. o.) www.zoner.sk (Slovak pages of ZONER software, s. r. o.)
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