# History of the PDF | Sensible Blog

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## What Jamie wrote

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is now a core part of our digital world. I remember when Adobe first launched it and it seemed like it mainly solved the problem of not having the right fonts on your computer. But it has become so much more, and it is great example of a company moving the entire ecosystem forward by being a great steward of the invention.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT272: Weekly Thing 272 / Escape, Fuzzy, Melodrip](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/272/), Notable

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.sensible.so/blog/history-of-the-pdf