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Nowhere near as trivially as a Word document.
by 0xffff2 11y ago
Nowhere near as trivially as a Word document.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Nowhere near as trivially as a Word document. IIRC, its exactly as trivial: you use PDF editing software, just as you use Word editing software to edit a word doc. The only difference is that lots of consumers use read-only software for PDFs, but they aren't -- absent use of specific protection measures -- inherently read-only.
- vonmoltke 11y agoIndeed. Anybody in the business of handling large volumes of PDFs is going to shell out for Acrobat, and then editing your PDF is just a matter of starting a different application.
- lmkg 11y agoMy personal experience is that, after sending out a resume in PDF format, many recruiters (~25%?) will ask me to re-send it in Word format so they can edit it. The barrier of "use a piece of software outside the Microsoft Office Suite" shouldn't be a roadblock to anyone, but it is. I case anyone wonders, this hasn't caused problems in practice. I push back and explain that I don't have a Word version of my resume (I use LaTeX), and the recruiter will pass long the unmodified PDF after one or two rounds of email.
- mixmastamyk 11y agoYes, and we really shouldn't encourage edits by a third party that we will not see.
- mixmastamyk 11y agoI'd be surprised if PDF editing software is even one tenth as common as MS Office + LibreOffice + Mac Office installs.