Alertbox | PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption. Occasionally I agree 100% with Jakob Nielsen... this is one of those times. PDF sucks for anything other than print. It's frequently used on the web when HTML should be used and in many cases, it's pure laziness - ahh I can't be arsed converting that, let's just whack a PDF up on the site. Users only open PDFs when they have to. If nothing else; people should pay attention to the fact that users hate PDF. Whatever other benefits there are, you'd think people could at least understand that, right?

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