According to foreign media NBC news, the inventor of the PDF format and co-founder of Adobe company Charles “Chuck” Geschke died on Friday, April 17th, US local time at the age of 81 year old. He previously lived in the Los Altos suburb of San Francisco, USA, and the news was officially released by Adobe.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said in an email to employees that the death of “Charles Geschke” was a great loss for Adobe and the technical field. He has led the company’s development for decades and is a hero. The same character.
Charles Gerschke and John Warnock (John Warnock) founded Adobe in December 1982. The source of the company’s name is a creek behind John Warnock’s house. The company created by these two people is now used by a large number of creators. Their first software is Adobe PostScript, which is used to print text and images on paper. This software triggered a revolution in the book publishing industry.
Naijatechnews learned that Charles Gerschke not only co-invented the PDF file format , but also contributed to the development of software such as Acrobat, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop.
Charles Gerschke’s wife Nancy said in an interview, “Charles is a very famous businessman who has made great achievements in his life. He is very proud of that. He pays great attention to family and always says that he is the world. The luckiest person on the planet.”
Charles Geschke received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in his early years and then began working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He met his partner John Warnock there, and the two resigned in 1982 and co-founded Adobe. In 2009, he also received the National Medal of Technology awarded by the then President of the United States .
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