RANDOM APPLE MEMORY
Charles Geschke
Charlotte Henry reflects on the life of Charles Geschke and his clashes with Steve Jobs
Charles Geschke, ‘the father of desktop publishing’, co-founded Adobe Inc in 1982 and was a member of the board until 2020.
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 lived an interesting life too, including being captured at gunpoint in 1992 and held for ransom. His kidnappers freed him unharmed after four days.