{"id":19336,"date":"2021-04-18T19:11:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=19336"},"modified":"2021-04-18T19:11:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T19:11:14","slug":"adobe-co-founder-who-helped-develop-the-pdf-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=19336","title":{"rendered":"Adobe co-founder who helped develop the PDF dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geschke set up Adobe in 1982, giving the world the ubiquitous PDF software, among many other audio-visual innovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made headlines 10 years later when he was kidnapped at gunpoint and held for ransom before being released unhurt after a four-day ordeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geschke died in California on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said Geschke, widely known as Chuck, \u201csparked the desktop publishing revolution\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades,\u201d he wrote in an email to the company\u2019s employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs co-founders of Adobe, Chuck and John Warnock developed ground-breaking software that has revolutionized how people create and communicate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geschke and Warnock were responsible for transformative software inventions, including PDF, Acrobat, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Photoshop, Mr Narayen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1992, Geschke was kidnapped in an incident that made national headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was held at gunpoint in his office and taken to Hollister, California, for four days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geschke was freed after a suspect, found with $650,000 (\u00a3470,000) in ransom money, took police to the location where he was being held, Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009, President Barack Obama awarded Geschke and Warnock the National Medal of Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was really a humble, humble man \u2013 I can say that, as his wife,\u201d Nan Geschke\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2021\/04\/17\/adobe-co-founder-charles-geschke-dies-at-81\/\">told Mercury News.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cHe was very proud of his success, of course, but he was very circumspect about how much he had to do with that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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