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  1. Charles Matthew " Chuck " Geschke (September 11, 1939 – April 16, 2021) was an American businessman and computer scientist best known for founding the graphics and publishing software company Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982, with whom he also co-created the PDF document format. [2] [3]

  2. Apr 18, 2021 · Charles Geschke, the co-founder of the software company Adobe who helped develop the Portable Document Format, or PDF, has died at the age of 81. Geschke set up Adobe in 1982, giving the world the ...

  3. Apr 16, 2021 · It is with profound sadness that Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) shares the passing of the company’s beloved co-founder, Dr. Charles Geschke. Dr. Geschke passed away on Friday, surrounded by his family. Dr. Geschke co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. John Warnock, a colleague from Xerox. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, a pivotal technology that sparked the desktop publishing revolution. Dr. Geschke was chief operating officer of Adobe from December 1986 to July 1994 and president from April ...

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  5. Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and CMU Ph.D. alumnus, died in 2021 at 81. He was a leader in the software industry and a supporter of human-computer interaction research at CMU.

  6. Apr 18, 2021 · Charles “Chuck” Geschke, the co-founder of software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs has died at age 81.

  7. Apr 18, 2021 · Geschke was a pioneer of desktop publishing and the PDF, and survived a kidnapping attempt in 1992. He received the National Medal of Technology with John Warnock in 2009.

  8. Apr 20, 2021 · Charles Matthew Geschke was born in Cleveland, on Sept. 11, 1939. His mother, Sophia (Krisch) Geschke, worked for the Cleveland bankruptcy court as a paralegal. His father, Matthew, was a ...