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Adobe and PDF co-creator Charles Geschke dies aged 81 – ABC News
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.
Key points:
- Charles Geschke’s first Adobe product used technology that sparked the desktop publishing revolution, says Adobe’s chief executive
- Mr Geschke famously survived a kidnapping in 1992
- He earned his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University
Mr Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died on Friday local…
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