Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Avoid PDF for On-Screen Reading (10 Jun 2001) Forcing users to browse PDF files makes usability approximately 300% worse compared to HTML pages. Only use PDF for documents that users are likely to print. In those cases, following six basic guidelines will minimize usability problems. Article URL: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010610.html Read 328 more articles from Jakob Nielsen sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: A trail of two cities This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy