Shorthand versus PDF
Be gone with you, unresponsive, inaccessible, dead-boring PDFs! You’ve had your time. With Shorthand, it’s easy to create beautiful, immersive content and leave PDFs behind.
The world's leading brands trust Shorthand
Generate leads with engaging content
Content built with Shorthand is engaging, professional, and immersive, which makes it perfect for lead generation. You can put a form or another type of lead generation embed anywhere on the page, and quickly edit this based on the page’s analytics.
6 reasons to choose Shorthand over PDFs
“PDFs are not really digitally native, so it's quite hard to create a satisfying user experience in that format — and it simply doesn’t look as good as it does when using a platform like Shorthand.”
Stephen Eddie, Managing Editor, Retail Week
Create beautiful reading experiences, without code
Shorthand makes it easy to create beautiful, immersive content that will draw in and delight your readers.
You don’t have to know how to write code, or even work with developers. With Shorthand, writers and creators can build cinematic content simply with our intuitive editor.
Get the best support
Switching to Shorthand is made easy by our expert team. Shorthand’s Editorial Success Managers are ex-journalists, marketers, and content creators, so they know how to support you to do your best work.
“A one-pager PDF is so boring. Can we not do that? And so, we’re using Shorthand instead. This has helped the wider team see how great Shorthand can be and how great we can make their campaigns look.”
Andrea Hahn, Graphic Designer, mothers2mothers
