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PDF or HTML

A quick check to see if we advise your document should be published as a PDF or an HTML page or set of pages.

Disclosure: There is a slight bias built into this form towards HTML, that is because HTML is more accessible and generally faster to download.

PDF or HTML
1. How popular will the document be?
2. Will the document have links to webpages or other documents?
3. Is it a large document?
4. How do you perceive people will use this?
5. Branding, how important is it that this document always has the current HSE brand?
6. When design of the document is as important as the content (e.g. poster)
7. Consistency:
tends towards PDF or tends towards HTML

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