Founding of Adobe Systems
John Warnock and Charles Geschke, disillusioned by Xerox's failure to commercialize their graphics language, left Xerox PARC to found Adobe Systems, with a focus on developing a page description language.
Significance
This laid the groundwork for PostScript, which would become the cornerstone of desktop publishing and high-quality printing.
Key facts
- Date
- 1982-12-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA