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If you only need to send a simple resume, I'd suggest you try AbiWord and send out only PDF files. AbiWord is pretty light, it has a ton of useful extensions (if you want to install the whole thing), and the text quality is OK. Its main downside is that its Word compatibility is poor.
OO.o is fine too. But do send it out as a PDF. Then no one can change it unless they REALLY want to. |
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They are at good-day.net.
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Or just use Google Docs.
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OOo's MS Word compatibility is pretty good. I frequently export to PDF when sharing documentation with co-workers, though. I'd think resumes would be another good candidate for PDF format.
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If you want a light way to do it, use groff with the -ms macros. Ghostscript will convert the ps output to pdf just fine, and it is pretty small. groff is part of the base system.
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M$ office into RTF and simply open them in Ted and they will have the same layout. Ted is less than 1MB and has no dependencies. I like Pathetic Writer which is part of Siag office suite but it is not ported to FreeBSD. You may use it though on OpenBSD and it is my default office suite. Pathetic Writer also can open RTF but the default mode is pw format which is PW own format. You can export things of course into PDF and PS. Siag office suite which has almost the same functionality of OO is 5MB. As we know the OO is 1GB. 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. I would probably read the resume which was done in Troff but that is because I have a weakness for it. Resume processed with MikTeX on Windows or TeXLive on Unix is the same thing. You just transfer the source file and process. The same is true for Troff (actually you have to use Groff on Windows). There is a native version of Groff for Windows as well. You can run Groff and TeX on Windows via Cygwin also. Last edited by Oko; 13th November 2008 at 05:43 AM. |
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Never tried Ted. I use, on a regular basis, groff, TeX, Word, WordPerfect (lawyers!), OO.o and AbiWord. There may be a few others, but that is enough.
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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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Any text editor that defaults to CRLF vs LF-only is not a pure text editor.
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I wrote mine with Vim when I was looking for a job some time ago ... I would advice using unix2dos though, because otherwise your file will be unreadable if it gets opened with Notepad.
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I have had to resubmit resumes on several occasions when submitted them in PDF form .... stick with what everyone wants and just give them a doc. it sucks but that's life. Recruitment agencies seem to want to be able to edit them to fix typos etc.
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Yes they did, that one of the reason that I actually bought it. I think they still make the linux version but I never tried it up emulation.
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