[wellylug] TradeMe Linux jobs
Atom Smasher
atom at smasher.org
Sun Jun 29 21:24:35 NZST 2008
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> I'm interested in what is inside these PDFs? Are the PDFs just single
> image-wrappers? Or do they include text and embedded fonts and other
> objects?
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if it's my CV, it would be just text, fonts & formatting. in general,
employers are happy to get a PDF; headhunters are not.
> I still maintain that a PDF will not format the same on two different
> machines, though grant you it will be close. (We have had cases where
> they were not even close - but that was, we think, in the main case,
> attributable to different versions of software used to reduce the size
> of the PDFs.)
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if a PDF renders differently on two machines, it's an edge case. if DOC
renders the same on two machines it's a small miracle.
> Well, we were talking about providing a document to an agency, to be
> used to put forward the candidate to potential employers. The reason
> given for suggesting PDFs was *not* to 'provide a substitute for paper'
> but to lock in the recipient to a fixed format decided by the compiler
> of the PDF.
>
> But what does the agency do when they get it? They cut and paste the
> data into their own documents. If they can't do that, I suspect that the
> CV is straight to the recycle bin.
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ok, and if the agency requests DOC only, then either send a DOC or don't
expect to hear back.
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"How many people in this room made $100,000 last year? Less
than five percent of the American people make that much
money. But one who did, Mikey Eisner, the head mouseketeer
of Disney. In 1995 he made $100,000. Not for the year, not
for the month, he didn't make $100,000 a week; he didn't
make $100,000 a day; he made $100,000 an hour. Plus a car.
Meanwhile he was knocking down the health care benefits of
the minimum wage workers who were at Disney Land and
Disney World.
"These executives, like Michael Eisner, they get so rich that
they could afford to air-condition hell. And the way they're
acting, they better be setting money aside for that project."
-- Jim Hightower
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