PDFs allow for easy and portable saving, sharing, and generally also searching, all in a single file that will always have a consistent presentation. Reasons n

PDFs allow for easy and portable saving, sharing, and generally also searching, all in a single file that will always have a consistent presentation. Reasons not to use HTML - HTML files generally have load of external calls to css and javascript that don't allow for making clean single files as is. - Reality has proven that webdev will not to put effort into making saving pages cleanly viable. Expecting otherwise is fragile thinking - Even if you go above and beyond the standard user and use a browser addon for saving webpages as a single file, this doesn't always work out as formatting generally becomes fucked in some way, sometimes severely. - Often straight up a mandated requirement. - HMTL links will always rot, but a government document faxed, photocopied, faxed again, and scanned into a PDF file spread haphazardly across a dozen university and legal archives is forever Summarizing the results of some government project is a perfect use case for PDFs.