[wellylug] Linux on yourCV
Sam Sargeant
sam at cuba.st
Tue May 11 23:04:58 NZST 2004
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:40:02PM +1200, Enkidu wrote:
> 1. Proprietary. Even if it freely available.
So why is that bad?
> 2. You have to download a viewer. Bad! Bad! Bad!
Isn't this the case with every other file format? Last time I looked, Linux
didn't have built-in support for JPEG :)
> 3. Difficult to change directly (that's a BAD BAD thing).
Unless your intention is that the document is not to be changed? Be it a CV, or
a RFP. I like using PDFs for documents where the recipent is only going to be
reading it.
> 4. Bigger than Word - I've been sent PDFs that are 2MB! Even Word
> doesn't bloat that much. Usually.
Could be the case. I haven't compared.
> 5. Usually contain pictures and "art work".
That's the author of the document exercising their freedom to create whatever
layout they want. :)
> 6. Colour. Horror of horrors! Colour has no place in a CV.
Perhaps not, but that doesn't make the format evil.
> 7. Fonts. Why do people insist on creating PDFs with strange fonts
> that don't come as standard with the usual PDF readers?
Ignorance probably, but again it doesn't make the format evil.
:)
Sam.
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