[wellylug] TradeMe Linux jobs
Pete Black
pete at marchingcubes.com
Sun Jun 29 19:43:34 NZST 2008
Well, for me, if they want a .doc, i usually just send them a .doc - of
course its going to be generated by OpenOffice, and please, i'm hardly
going to piss about with saving as rtf and renaming...to what end?
I mean, even when i was working at Catalyst - hardly a hotbed of
thou-shalt-use-Microsoft activity my boss would ask me for word docs -
I'm not going to throw a hissy fit about it. I guess I have bigger fish
to fry.
All i'm saying is that I think making character judgements about people
based on the software they use is a pretty poor way to assess them. I
guess I would take the whole issue more seriously if I didn't constantly
run into people who tried OpenOffice and found it a poor substitute for
Word.
Do you hardliners have similar problems with the use of Samba, WINE etc.?
-Pete
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Pete Black wrote:
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>> Take out the word 'proprietary' - which is hardly the case anyway -
>> OpenOffice has read every .doc file i've been sent in the last few
>> years, and you've just eliminated pretty much every common document
>> format in existence.
>>
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> OO, like most open-source & 3rd party applications, handles different
> versions of DOC better than M$-word.
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>> And before you cry PDF - You should see how OS X preview mangles the PDF
>> output of gnome-print when Type-1 fonts are used, and its not like PDF
>> renders a document uneditable. Inconvenient to edit, sure, but it's no
>> silver bullet.
>>
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> nor is it meant to be, but FTMP all that's needed is that it's
> inconvenient for people to edit. hell, you can send me your CV in PNG and,
> while it is inconvenient, it can be edited.
>
> i don't have a mac to play with, but based on the problem you're
> describing i'd first ask if the PDF is created with embedded fonts...?
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>> How do you recommend sending CVs? As a series of .PNG files, one per
>> page or something?
>>
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> whatever format is requested, within reason. if they want DOC, send an RTF
> and change the name.
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