
Adobe co-founder and developer of PDF Charles Geschke dies at 81
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Charles Geschke helped develop PDF, Acrobat, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop. He founded Adobe in 1982 with colleague John Warnock from Xerox.
Adobe founder who helped develop Portable Document Format (PDF) document Charles Geschke died on Friday at the age of 81. Geschke lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos. He founded Adobe in 1982 with colleague John Warnock from Xerox. He retired in 2000 and remained on the Adobe board until 2020. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen in an email to his employees said, "This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades. As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed groundbreaking software that has revolutionised how people create and communicate," Narayen said. "Their first product was Adobe PostScript, an innovative technology that provided a radical new way to print text and images on paper and sparked the desktop publishing revolution. Chuck instilled a relentless drive for innovation in the company, resulting in some of the most transformative software inventions, including the ubiquitous PDF, Acrobat, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop."
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