November 21, 2005

PDF is for printing

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Check out this great article about why PDFs should typically be used only on documents that are meant to be printed – not on “normal” pages. I find many sites have PDF files all over the place, for things that have no business being in that format.

I had intended to write a long article about this, but it’s summed up so well on Web Pages That Suck, that there’s no sense in me re-writing it.

Mickey

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