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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 the age of 81.
Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died Friday, the company said.
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Charles Geschke (left) receives a National Medal of Technology alongside John E. Warnock (center) in 2009.
Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died Friday.
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.
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. Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died Friday, the company said. “This is a huge…
Adobe Co-Founder and Inventor of PDFs Charles Geschke Dies at Age 81
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Adobe co-founder and University of San Francisco chairman Charles Geschke (left) presents an honorary degree to the Dalai Lama alongside USF president Steven Privett (right) in San Francisco, California in 2003. (Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)
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Charles “Chuck” Geschke, a co-founder of the leading software company Adobe who invented PDFs, died Friday at age 81, the company said in a statement.