Dear Friends and Students
Today I was requesting one of my colleagues to send me a document. Immediately I received a PDF version!! However, a few years back If you ask someone to send, they generally send you a word file right? PDF garnered so much importance! Isn’t it?
Why PDF is Powerful?
It is reliable. Any amount of data such as paragraphs, images, vector graphics, tablets, etc., it will always display that data in the exact same way no matter where you are viewing it (Desktop, mobile, tablet, or any other means). You can export to others easily, you can secure the document with a password (for e.g. when an Income Tax department sends you an ITR confirmation, it sends you in PDF with the password right?). You can reduce the size by lowering quality, version-independent (docx or pptx cannot be seen in advanced version or early versions of Office right?). The PDF file format welcomes all kinds of content with the same love and affection and having high professional appeal (pdfexpert.com).
Why I am talking more about PDF, Adobe Inc, Photoshop? Yes, there is a reason. Charles ''Chuck'' Geschke, The Co-founder of Adobe Inc., who helped to develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs, died at age 81, in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos. It is a huge loss to the Adobe community! One of the amazing software product architects!! We miss him.
Adobe Inc has an Indian connection as well. Its CEO is Shantanu Narayen, who studied in Hyderabad Public School, Hyderabad, BTech ECE from Osmania University, Hyderabad, M.S from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
The first product of Adobe was Adobe PostScript, an innovative technology that provided a radical new way to print text and images on paper. Geschke earned a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University, began working at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he met John Warnock (co-founder). The men left the company in 1982 to found Adobe, developing software together!!
In 1992, Geschke survived a kidnapping (Mercury News)!!
Charles Matthew Geschke was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Did MS in mathematics in 1963, from Xavier University, taught mathematics at John Carroll University from 1963 to 1968 and completed his PhD studies in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He was a co-author of 1975 book “The Design of an Optimizing Compiler”. In 1978, Geschke started the Imaging Sciences Laboratory at PARC, in XEROX and conducted research in the areas of graphics, optics, and image processing (Wikipedia)
Geschke and Warnock founded Adobe in Warnock's garage in 1982. In 2020, it crossed $12,806 million revenue!!! Outstanding Success!!
Geschke, We remember you whenever we use PDFs, the powerful software product!!
Your Well-wisher
Ravi Saripalle
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Source Inspiration:https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2021/04/133_307347.html
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