I guessed that much myself to be honest :). However it has always been trivially easy to copy and paste content from a PDF so their restriction didn't make much

I guessed that much myself to be honest :). However it has always been trivially easy to copy and paste content from a PDF so their restriction didn't make much sense to me even with that point in mind. And with the added issue that every tech recruiter I approached enforcing the same policy, it made it impossible to shop around for recruitment agencies that would honour my CV. Thankfully I've not had the same issues when job hunting again recently. At least not thus far.