BEVERLY HILLS, April 18, (THEWILL) – Charles Geschke, the co-founder of Adobe, the software company that developed PDF, is dead at the age of 81.
Geschke, who resided in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, California, died on Friday.
Speaking on the development in a statement to employees, Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe, said: “It is with profound sadness that I share that our beloved co-founder Chuck Geschke, has passed away at the age of 81.”
“This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades.”
“As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed groundbreaking software that has revolutionized how people create and communicate. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, an innovative technology that provided a radical new way to print text and images on paper and sparked the desktop publishing revolution.”
“Chuck instilled a relentless drive for innovation in the company, resulting in some of the most transformative software inventions, including the ubiquitous PDF, Acrobat, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop.”
THEWILL writes that Geschke established Adobe in 1982, giving the world the PDF software.
He is survived by his wife, three children, and seven grandchildren.
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