John Warnock, 1940-2023
The Adobe cofounder who revolutionized printing is gone at 82.
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The Adobe cofounder who revolutionized printing is gone at 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.