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<p>HTML would be easier for professors to access.</p>
<p>I still don’t see the downside to using PDF. In the journals I’m familiar with, they publish the PDF files and the print journals in exactly the same format, which allows for some fancier formatting. I don’t see how it would be more efficient to do a two column layout with HTML than doing it in a word processor and printing to PDF.</p>
<p>Outside of academia, I see PDF used even more often (though I’m not sure about research). Pretty much everything my company sends out, external and internal emails, gets converted to a PDF. If you want to save a PDF file, you only need to worry about ONE file. If you want to save a PDF file, you have to worry about the base html file as well as all the images associated with it. It just becomes too much of a hassle.</p>