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CHARLES GESCHKE, the co–founder of Adobe who helped develop the PDF, passed away aged 81 on Friday, 16 April, 2021. At university, he studied Latin and liberal arts — before falling into computer programming in the 1960s he hardly seemed a likely candidate to be one of the people who would reshape desktop publishing. Yet, alongside Steve Jobs and Apple, that’s what he and his company did. Dr Geschke certainly lived an eventful life too, including being captured at gunpoint in 1992 and held for ransom. His kidnappers freed him unharmed after four days.