John Warnock, computer scientist who co-founded Adobe – obituary
With Charles Geschke he built Adobe into the second-biggest PC-software company in the world after Microsoft
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With Charles Geschke he built Adobe into the second-biggest PC-software company in the world after Microsoft
Until Warnock and Adobe came along, desktop printing was an arduous, expensive and unsatisfying endeavor. Warnock developed protocols that came loaded into desktop printers themselves, and that accurately rendered what a computer sent them.
As a founder of Adobe Systems, he oversaw the development of software and systems that made modern personal computing possible.
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.