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                  Adobe Co-Founder Charles Geschke Dead at 81

   Josh Centers

   Dr. Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and a pioneer of the desktop
   publishing revolution, [1]passed away on 16 April 2021 at the age of
   81. In the early 1980s, Geschke worked at Xerox PARC with fellow Adobe
   co-founder Dr. John Warnock, and the two developed Interpress, a
   language that described page layouts so they could be created, viewed,
   and printed with the same fidelity. Xerox, ever consistent in its
   inability to recognize and commercialize tremendous opportunities,
   passed on the idea. Geschke and Warnock left to found Adobe, where they
   developed [2]PostScript. Of course, Xerox PARC also developed many
   graphical computing concepts that eventually [3]inspired the Macintosh.

   PostScript was the key that made desktop publishing possible. Steve
   Jobs licensed PostScript from Adobe to use in laser printers, and the
   original Apple LaserWriter was the first such PostScript printer to
   ship. Adobe went on to create or purchase apps in pretty much every
   category of graphical creative software, making the company a force in
   image editing, graphic design, publishing, illustration, animation,
   video, and much more.

   Geschke was active in Adobe's day-to-day affairs from its founding in
   1982 to his retirement as president in 2000. He was co-chairman of the
   board with Warnock from 1997 through 2017 and remained a board member
   until April 2020. Despite the huge changes in design and creativity he
   and Warnock unleashed upon the world, Geschke led a life out of the
   spotlight often claimed by massively successful tech entrepreneurs.

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References

   1. https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2021/Adobe-Co-Founder-Dr.-Geschke-Passes-at-81/default.aspx
   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript
   3. https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html
   4. https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2021/Adobe-Co-Founder-Dr.-Geschke-Passes-at-81/default.aspx

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