Charles "Chuck" Geschke, Co-Founder of Adobe Inc Dies at 81

NEW DELHI: Charles "Chuck" Geschke, the co-founder of the software giant Adobe Inc passed away at the age of 81 on Friday.

Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died Friday, shared by Adobe.

He spent most of his life at Adobe, one of the biggest companies in the technology world which provides dozens of software and services starting from graphic design to web-based services.

He also helped develop Portable Document Format technology or PDFs.

"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 said 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.

Their first product was Adobe PostScript, which CEO Narayan lauded as "an innovative technology that provided a radical new way to print text and images on paper and sparked the desktop publishing revolution."

He asserted that "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."

Besides playing a significant role for the company, he received the National Medal of Technology in 2009 from US President Barack Obama.

As per reports, after earning a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University, Geschke worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. It is where he met Warnock. The geniuses left the company in 1982 and founded Adobe to develop software. 

Charles Geschke was kidnapped in the year 1992 that made national headlines.

Geschke's wife, Nan Geschke told the news agency that her husband was really a "humble, humble" man.

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