[wellylug] TradeMe Linux jobs

[Cliff Pratt]

Mark Foster wrote:
> 
>> Trying to restrict the user to just those fonts and exactly the layout
>> that you designed into it is, IMO, arrogant and inflexible.
> 
> Uhh...
> 
> If it's a document I designed then I damn well want it to look like I 
> intended it. It's MY DESIGN after all.
> 
> PDF is by far the best way to achieve this.  And indeed, the PDF's you get 
> which are effectively 'scanned images' achieve this...
> 
> PDF still seems to be - in my humble experience - the best way to preserve 
> the desired formatting.
> 
Once you give it to someone, it is theirs. What they do with it is 
nothing to do with you. Do you expect them to ADMIRE your design? It is 
secondary to what they want to do with the document which is to get the 
info out. I don't know of any employment agency that will put your CV 
forward 'as is'.

PDF can preserver *your* desired formatting, but that may not be 
convenient for the recipient. If I'm an agency and I can't cast your CV 
into a form that suits the agency the CV is useless to me. At the very 
least I would want to put my Logo and details on the document somewhere, 
  just to remind the client who put this candidate forward.

Cheers,

Cliff