Founder of Adobe and Developer of PDFs Dies at Age 81
LOS ALTOS, Calif. Charles “Chuck” Geschke the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs died at age 81.
Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died Friday, the company 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,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen wrote in an email to the company’s employees.
“As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed groundbreaking software that has revolutionized 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 trans
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April 19, 2021
LOS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA (AP) – Charles ‘Chuck’ Geschke
(pic below) the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs died at age 81.
Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died on Friday, the
company 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,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen wrote in an email to the company’s employees.
“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 transform
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Charles Chuck Geschke the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs has died at age 81.
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Charles Geschke s first Adobe product used technology that sparked the desktop publishing revolution, says Adobe s chief executive
Mr Geschke famously survived a kidnapping in 1992
He earned his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University
Mr Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died on Friday local time, the company said.
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LOS ALTOS, Calif. (AP) Charles “Chuck” Geschke the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs died at age 81.
Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died Friday, the company 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,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen wrote in an email to the company’s employees.
“As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed groundbreaking software that has revolutionized 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 inv