RE: Resumes

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Are you trying to tell us that you WILL use proprietary software if it doesn't 
come from Microsoft? I thought a package had to be available under GPL to make 
it onto your list. Creating a PDF file normally requires Adobe Acrobat, which 
is proprietary and relatively expensive. (Acrobat Reader, which is freeware, 
can open PDFs but it cannot create them.) I have a low-cost package called 
Print2PDF, which the publisher, Blue Squirrel, publishes under license from 
Adobe. Print2PDF allows you to create PDFs using a much lower cost package than 
Acrobat. However, the package is not for everyone. Unlike PDFs created with 
Acrobat, those created with Print2PDF are bit maps and so are MUCH larger 
than "real" PDFs. Also, unlike real PDFs, files created with Print2PDF are not 
searchable for text strings using the string-search tool in Acrobat Reader.
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> <<On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:32:50 -0800 (PST), Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com> said:
> 
> > Hmmmm....  RTF is easy and every windows machine has a
> > prog capable of opening them...  you can do a lot more
> > than PDFs.
> 
> ...but not every person in the Universe uses Windows (even if most HR
> droids do).  If I were sending out resumes, I would send them in plain
> text (and I wouldn't want to work for any place where that wasn't
> expected form).  If I needed a ``fancy'' format I would format to PDF,
> particularly if I were going through an agency, because that's the
> only format that is sufficiently difficult to edit.  Of course, mine
> is a different industry, where most of the clueful people have little
> tolerance for ``word processors''.
> 
> -GAWollman
>