Search results
Results from the Go Local Guru Content Network
John Edward Warnock (October 6, 1940 – August 19, 2023) was an American computer scientist, inventor, technology businessman, and philanthropist best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke in 1982. [2] Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two years and chairman and ...
John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe, has died aged 82, the software company announced on Sunday.
John Warnock, who helped invent the PDF and co-founded Adobe Systems, has died. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur and computer scientist died Saturday surrounded by family, Adobe said in a statement.
Adobe's corporate logo features a stylized "A" and was designed by graphic designer Marva Warnock, John Warnock's wife. [12] Steve Jobs attempted to buy the company for $5 million [13] in 1982, but Warnock and Geschke refused. Their investors urged them to work something out with Jobs, so they agreed to sell him shares worth 19 percent of the ...
Charles Matthew " Chuck " Geschke (September 11, 1939 – April 16, 2021) was an American businessman and computer scientist best known for founding the graphics and publishing software company Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982, with whom he also co-created the PDF document format. [2][3]
John Warnock wrote one of the shortest PhD dissertations in history, then changed the world of publishing and printing as co-founder of Adobe.
PostScript was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984. The most recent version, PostScript 3, was released in 1997. The most recent version, PostScript 3, was released in 1997.
The Camelot Paper at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-04-22) – the paper in which John Warnock outlined the project that created PDF Everything you wanted to know about PDF but was afraid to ask at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-01-18) – recording of a talk by Leonard Rosenthol (45 mins) ( Adobe Systems ) at TUG 2007