PDF Usage Guidelines

Aptivate was commissioned by the Department For International Development (DFID) in 2005 to write an advisory set of guidelines on PDF downloading. This report explores potential issues that users in the developing world might face in using websites that host research documents, particularly regarding the downloading and usage of research papers and articles as PDF documents.

Note: more information about PDF usage and optimisation for low bandwidth is available in the section on PDFs in our web design guidelines.

PDF Usage Guidelines (236.2 KB)