Adobe and PDF co-creator Charles Geschke dies aged 81
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Charles Geschke co-developed software that revolutionised how people create, says Adobe s chief executive.
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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.