Dr. John Warnock, whose desktop publishing industry technology developments (such as PostScript and PDF file format) as the co-founder of Adobe with Charles Geschke, forever changed the printing and publishing industry, died Aug. 19th at age 82.
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger brings the news that Charles Chuck Geschke, the co-founder of Adobe, had died at the age of 81.
The company started in co-founder John Warnock s garage in 1982, and was named after the Adobe Creek which ran behind Warnock s home, offering pioneering capabilit.
Slashdot reader Dave Knott writes:
John Warnock, co-founder and ex-CEO of Adobe, has died at the age of 82. Under his tenure, Adobe created Postscript, Acrobat, Photoshop, and many other technologies and software products that have become industry standards in publishing, graphic design, video edi.