Managing a small IT lab for a college I can say PDF is the *simple* solution to get a document printed properly, even if it was edited with OO o Word2007.
Different machine give out different output from same HTML, rtf, doc source, so users blame me saying "I've used different font, layout was different". Tell me how HTML can look exactly the same in different OS, or simply using different resolution, without coming back to middle '90s (Oh sorry... I remember browser war... write once test everywhere...).
So for most people, for which layout and font are important matters, PDF is solution.
In the other branch if you need accessibility, you can distribute a plain text copy of document, so user can *choose*, accessibility VS a well formatted document
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Managing a small IT lab for a college I can say PDF is the *simple* solution to get a document printed properly, even if it was edited with OO o Word2007. Different machine give out different output from same HTML, rtf, doc source, so users blame me saying "I've used different font, layout was different". Tell me how HTML can look exactly the same in different OS, or simply using different resolution, without coming back to middle '90s (Oh sorry... I remember browser war... write once test everywhere...). So for most people, for which layout and font are important matters, PDF is solution. In the other branch if you need accessibility, you can distribute a plain text copy of document, so user can *choose*, accessibility VS a well formatted document