Adobe has ventured where few software companies have gone. It’s now in the hardware business with the debut of Adobe Ink & Slide, a digital tablet pen and ruler set for Apple’s_iPad linked_to the company’s_Creative Cloud subscription service. Both tools were unveiled at Adobe’s MAX 2013 conference with the somewhat fanciful monikers Project Mighty and Project Napoleon. They’ve now been renamed Ink for the pen, and Slide for the ruler. They are sold as a boxed pair for $199.99 and are designed to work specifically with the last three models of Apple’s iPad. Because Adobe needed software to test what...

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