The format itself isn’t terribly efficient, it seems efficient because it’s better than Word, but that’s the kind of curve grading that let’s bad software seem good. And the Acrobat Reader is just plain a hunk of junk, bigger, slower and less stable every revision.
Acroshat is NOT allowed on my machines.
Nowadays, I "print" pretty much everything to PDF in Chrome (in lieu of actually printing it).
That way, I don't have to mess with saved html - and I get everything that I want.
When I want to look at it, Foxit snaps it onto the screen.
One good thing about PDF is that any computer or mobile device can understand and read it right away. PDF has been around forever and IIRC it was the first format that you were easily able to get to print out the way it looked on the computer screen. WYSIWYG.
Now I see the Adobe Acrobat wiki and it has only been around since 1993. I thought it had been around since 1983.