Best Practices for Authoring Portable Documents

• Use named styles, and avoid directly application of text attributes
• Avoid OLE embeddings
• Avoid 'fancy' fonts and try to use widely-supported fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman or Courier New
• Never align content with spaces or tabs. Always use text alignment or indentation
• Never refer to content by page or line, e.g, "As shown on page 24". Use live references instead
• Embedded media, such as images, should be in widely supported formats such as JPG, GIF or PNG. Avoid platform-specific formats like WMF or BMP.
• Don't generate table of contents by hand,let the application handle it for you
• Don't go overboard with 3D effects, special animations / effects in presentations
• Avoid macros / scripts