Co-founder of Adobe, who helped develop PDF technology, dies aged 81

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Chuck Geschke was involved in developing 'groundbreaking software that has revolutionised how people create and communicate', Adobe's chief executive says.

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.Charles Geschke's first Adobe product used technology that sparked the desktop publishing revolution, says Adobe's chief executiveHe earned his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University

"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," Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen wrote in an email to the company's employees. "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.

 

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