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Old 13th November 2008
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On the another hand the answer to your question depends whom you are sending resumes and for what purposes. I personally would not read a resume which is not done in TeX/LaTeX and sent to me in PDF or PS format but I am mathematician and that is just our standard.
This is important. You have to define your field, and learn what the standards are. My wife is a recruiter in biotechnology, and the standard, 100% of the time, is MS Word. You can certainly get by with a PDF, but one thing she does is help the applicant improve their original resume. Many are truly awful -- you might be shocked.

Once you have the final form, submitting a PDF is fine. Everyone can read those. But if you work with someone to do so, you really do need something that can be read by Word. That is OO.o.

If you have confidence in you original resume, then do consider AbiWord or one of the typesetters like groff or TeX.
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