All published federal documents should be posted to repositories in their original formats AND pdf formats at resolution levels that are legible to everyone.
To often documents are printed, then scanned, then posted and in the process critical information in tables and graphs becomes unreadable.
Also, tabular data becomes almost impossible to access once placed in pdf format. The original spreadsheet format and text formats should be available.
Additionally, the government should standardize on open source free formats and require these for all reports written for or by the government (e.g. the Open Source Open Office formats).
Any provider (free or commerical) can and should use these open formats.
Why Is This Idea Important?
Too often posted documents in repositories are illegible (scanned) and/or the data tables they contain are essentially inaccessible to use - other than just reading them.