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“I had an amazing teacher in high school who, essentially, completely turned me around,” Warnock said. “He was really good at getting you to love mathematics, and that’s when I got into it.”

The Adobe cofounder who revolutionized printing is gone at 82.

He helped invent the PDF.

John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Systems with fellow Los Altos resident Chuck Geschke, died Saturday, surrounded by his family. Mr. Warnock was 82.

The co-founder of graphics and publishing software giant Adobe, Dr. John Warnock, died Sunday, aged 82. Without his work, and that of his co-founder Dr. Charles Geschke (who passed away in 2021), the desktop publishing revolution would probably not have occurred when it did. When, in 1982, the duo was unable to convince their bosses

John Warnock, who played a seminal role in the history of computing as co-founder and chief executive of Adobe Inc., helping create the Portable Document Format (PDF) and software that turned computers into digital printing presses, radically reshaping office life and publishing, died Aug. 19 at 82.

He helped invent the PDF.

Adobe co-founder and University of Utah alumni John Warnock died on Saturday at age 82, Adobe confirmed in a statement Sunday.

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Adobe: Warnock created the San Jose-based company in 1982 with Charles Geschke and served as chief executive officer until 2000 and as chief technical officer until his retirement in 2001. He was also chairman of the board for nearly three decades until 2017, sharing that position with Geschke for most of that time. Warnock remained on the companys board of directors until his death. Geschke died in 2021 at the age of 81.