I believe that one of the reasons that PDF took off the way it did, was the fact that it was a nice halfway point between a digital document and a print document. Publishers and authors alike could get a perfect replica of the print document into a digital form at relatively zero cost. The deficiencies of early HTML was that it did have the pixel positioning that current versions and extensible versions have. The pixel positioning is available now and the dozens of supplementary issues like interractivity etc have made this type of publishing redundant. Or has it ? I think that some journals, particularly 'reprinted' ones will always have to be provided in a PDF format, primarily because redoing them in HTML will be too costly and too time consuming. I am afraid that PDF's will be around for a long time to come but I agree that all new documents should be provided in a HTML format and not relatively inflexible PDF.
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