Robert Zaremba thinks we should; at least for publications that aren’t going to end up printed on paper. His argument is that PDFs don’t work well on digital screens. He has a point about PDFs not working very well on Smart Phones. I don’t agree that they’re bad on, say, iPads or many other digital display devices.
I disagree very strongly with Zaremba about retiring PDF. I’ve seen his arguments before and wasn’t persuaded then either. As far as I’m concerned, it remains the best portable document format available. The idea that it can be replaced by something like EPUB is a nonstarter for me.
What do you think?