“He always called himself the luckiest man in the world.”Īfter earning a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University, Geschke began working at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he met Warnock, the Mercury News reported. “He was a famous businessman, the founder of a major company in the US and the world, and of course he was very, very proud of that and it was huge achievement in his life, but it wasn’t his focus – really, his family was,” Nancy “Nan” Geschke, 78, told the Mercury News on Saturday. His wife said Geschke was also proud of his family. 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.”įrom Adobe to Windows XP: Forced upgrades aren't just about staying up-to-date, they could save you from hackers "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. “As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed groundbreaking software that has revolutionised how people create and communicate," Narayen said. “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. Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died on Friday, the company said. Charles “Chuck” Geschke – the co-founder of the major software company Adobe who helped to develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs – died at age 81.
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