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Adobe founder, PDF developer dies at age 81
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, co-founder of major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format (PDF) technology has died on Friday at age 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,” Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen, wrote in an email to the company’s employees.
As co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed groundbreaking software that has revolutionized how people create and communicate, Narayen said.
