Web Guidelines: MIT Libraries

PDFs

In general, we should not rely on PDF as a replacement for HTML, but instead consider it a supplement to it, mainly for printing.

For details on how to create the best quality PDF files, see the PDF FAQ from MIT's Academic Computing.

MIT's ATIC Lab has more information on PDFs.

Always warn the reader when linking to a PDF, by indicating that the link will be a PDF.

See our BIOSIS cheatsheet page for an example.