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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Adobe.\n\nJohn Warnock co-founded Adobe with Charles Geschke in 1982, after the two worked together at Xerox PARC. He was Adobe's president for two years and then chairman and CEO until 2001, and co-chaired its board until 2017. He led the work behind PostScript, Adobe Illustrator and the PDF format.\n\n## What John builds\n\n- [Adobe Acrobat Sign](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.md), graded D, 52.6/100, in Contracts, proposals \u0026 e-signatures. Adobe Acrobat Sign is an e-signature service. Its REST API v6 creates agreements from uploaded files or library templates, sends them for signature, returns signing URLs and audit trails, and reports status through webhooks. Co-founder, Adobe, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Adobe Commerce (Magento)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.md), graded B, 63.9/100, in Commerce \u0026 checkout. Commerce platform from Adobe, built on the open-source Magento core. It runs as Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service, on Adobe's cloud infrastructure or on the merchant's own servers, and agents reach a store through its REST and GraphQL APIs. Co-founder, Adobe, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Adobe Firefly API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-firefly.md), graded D, 49.1/100, in Image generation. Adobe's Firefly image models (Image 3, Image 4 Standard and Ultra, Image 5) as async REST endpoints within Firefly Services. Co-founder, Adobe, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-pdf-extract.md), graded C, 55.9/100, in Document parsing \u0026 extraction. Adobe's REST API for reading and changing PDFs. Co-founder, Adobe, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Charles Geschke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/charles-geschke/), Co-founder, Adobe\n- [Christopher Shifflett](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/christopher-shifflett/), Director of Product Management, Firefly API Platform and Developer Tools\n- [Marcel Boucher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marcel-boucher/), Product leader, Firefly Services; 2025 Director, FFE Solution Acceleration\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is John Warnock?\n\nJohn Warnock co-founded Adobe with Charles Geschke in 1982, after the two worked together at Xerox PARC. He was Adobe's president for two years and then chairman and CEO until 2001, and co-chaired its board until 2017. He led the work behind PostScript, Adobe Illustrator and the PDF format.\n\n### What does Adobe make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Adobe Acrobat Sign, Adobe Commerce (Magento), Adobe Firefly API and Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API from Adobe. Adobe Acrobat Sign is an e-signature service. Its REST API v6 creates agreements from uploaded files or library templates, sends them for signature, returns signing URLs and audit trails, and reports status through webhooks.\n\n### How are John's tools graded?\n\nAdobe Acrobat Sign is graded D, 52.6 out of 100; Adobe Commerce (Magento) is graded B, 63.9 out of 100; Adobe Firefly API is graded D, 49.1 out of 100; Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API is graded C, 55.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://developer.adobe.com/acrobat-sign/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/developer-support\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warnock\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke\n- https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/webapi/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/contributor/community/\n- https://www.google.com/search?q=site.adobe.com+%22Firefly+API%22+%22product%22+manager\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophershifflett\n- https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe.html\n- https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/guides/support/\n- https://airtable.com/appu5RTWgdM95jynx/pagyuT1qspNJcPU2E/form\n- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/faq/tech-support/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/pdf-extract-api/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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