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Adobe Co-Founder Charles Geschke, Pioneer of Desktop Publishing and PDFs, Dies at Age 81 04/18/2021 | 11:16am EDT Send by mail : Message : By James R. Hagerty Charles Geschke, who studied Latin and liberal arts as an undergraduate and once considered the priesthood, discovered computer programming more or less by accident in the 1960s. That led to a job at Xerox Corp. s research arm in Silicon Valley, where he bonded with a colleague, John Warnock. They worked on software that eventually would translate words and images on a computer screen into printed documents. When Xerox was slow to recognize the potential of their ideas, the two men bolted in 1982 and formed what is now Adobe Inc., a software colossus with a market value of about $250 billion, or around 50 times the current value of the company they left behind. Adobe software spawned desktop publishing with such familiar programs as Photoshop, Acrobat and Illustrator, along with the ubiquitous Portable Docum

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