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[Pete Black]

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.
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> 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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