Adobe Acrobat Reader Quality Not Quite on Par with HTML Pages Forrest Stroud
As for quality, Adobe Acrobat presentations are often no match for well-designed HTML documents. The fonts, even with Adobe's own PDF files, occasionally come across jagged and are not nearly as easy to read as fonts on web pages. Plus the time it takes to load the reader and the PDF file lag far behind the time it takes to load a web page (even if your browser isn't already open).
However, for massive presentations and complex tables, charts, graphs, and the like, PDF files often offer superior readability and manageability as opposed to Web documents. And thanks to the Acrobat reader, PDF files can now make use of hypertext support, allowing you to cruise from site to site within a PDF document just like you would in a Web browser.
The electronic documentation premise and the reduction of wasteful paper are both ways of the future, and thanks to the Acrobat Reader, we are one step closer to bringing that future to us today. Overall, while HTML is typically a more attractive and more efficient use of paperless documentation, in the absence of an Internet connection or for massive documents, the Acrobat Reader is indeed a very useful tool for the task.
Pros: Easy and free viewing or printing of Adobe Acrobat PDF files from within your browser
Cons: Acrobat PDF files don't look or function as well (or load as quickly) as HTML documents on the web
