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When I was applying, I had a situation where sometimes the ATS system would show me as Geoff and other times as Geo, with no clue why. Obviously, that's not a
by gcanyon 3y ago
When I was applying, I had a situation where sometimes the ATS system would show me as Geoff and other times as Geo, with no clue why.
Obviously, that's not a fatal issue, but it was indicative of other problems with my résumé, and I saw those in the auto-generated job histories.
Pixelmator Pro just released a feature where it can open PDFs to show you the internal structure. I opened my résumé and sure enough "Geoff" is in two text boxes, despite being a single chunk of text in the source document. :-/
- steve1977 3y agoHow did you create the PDF? Sounds a bit like the ff is a ligature (i.e. not simply two f’s, but like one special character consisting of two f’s) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)
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- ianburrell 3y ago"ff" can be a ligature,ff. It is possible their system doesn't like the Unicode character. Even if isn't ligature character in PDF, the renderer could make it. Decomposition errors are common, as are not handling Unicode.
- gcanyon 3y agoIt's not a ligature, but you're definitely onto something. I checked again, and all the characters of my name are individual paths, except for the f's. I put a space between the f's, and now they're two separate characters as well. I double an n, no grouping. I put in a double f elsewhere, the grouping happens for those. It's amazing to me that the PDF ecosystem is this broken after thirty years. I'm boggled that there isn't a commonly-used way to add structured data to a PDF to enable it as a machine-communication standard as well as a human one. Edit to add: I found a "disable ligatures" option in Pages. Setting that didn't fix the "f" grouping. :-/
- jahewson 3y agoThere’s a way, it’s just not commonly used. (See: PDF/A).