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by bob1029 1205 days ago
The consistency of the format. PDFs are pretty much the only realistic way to convey items like legal documents to a wide range of customers. I certainly wouldn't want to receive my legally-binding bank account documents as a pile of HTML soup that would render arbitrarily (or not correctly at all).

I also have a rule about reading PDFs. I almost universally print them off to actual paper if it's more than 2-3 pages worth of content. Printing websites is a non-starter.