... more a condemnation of poor use of PDFs. For example..."Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and should otherwise be a web page." That's in bold type at the beginning of the article. I could see that. However, I also would not want PDFs to disappear because of the alarmist heading wording of some click-bait article.
Indeed. PDF isn't a great choice for on-screen reading, but if you know what you're doing, and take the medium's characteristics into account, it's perfectly acceptable.
But PDF is really better suited for something that will be printed, that the author doesn't want easily alterable, especially if you don't know what OS it will be printed from. For distributing cross-platform documents to be printed, it's actually pretty good.
But formatting something to be printed, and then expecting people to read it on sc
I agree, it is often easier to find information in a well constructed PDF than having to navigate through an HTML page hierarchy that does not have search support.
PDFs can't replace web pages. But web pages can't replace PDFs. Take electronic component datasheets: every attempt to replace them by online documentation is unusable.
... more a condemnation of poor use of PDFs.
Indeed. PDF isn't a great choice for on-screen reading, but if you know what you're doing, and take the medium's characteristics into account, it's perfectly acceptable.
But PDF is really better suited for something that will be printed, that the author doesn't want easily alterable, especially if you don't know what OS it will be printed from. For distributing cross-platform documents to be printed, it's actually pretty good.
But formatting something to be printed, and then expecting people to read it on sc