Adobe Co-Founder and Inventor of PDFs Charles Chuck Geschke Passes Away At 81

Co-founder of major creatives company Adobe, Mr Charles “Chuck” Geschke, who was also the person behind developing Portable Document Formats has passed away at the age of 81 years old. “This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for Geschke he has been a guide and hero for decades,” Adobe chief executive officer 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 in the statement. “He always called himself the luckiest man in the world.” After earning a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University, Geschke began working at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he met Warnock, the Mercury News reported.