[CLUE-Tech] Star Office, MS Office and converting PS files to PDF files

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On Fri, 17 May 2002 08:17:08 -0700 (PDT)
Keith Hellman <kehellman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I whole-heartedly concur with the approach; unfortunately I've run into HR
> people that refuse to accept PDFs.  They only want word documents, so have
> a reasonable and well crafted explanation on hand...
> 
> --- Kevin Cullis <kevincu at orci.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I just wanted to let you all know, or at least those that may not know,
> > that the filters in SO to MS office don't always work well enough.  I've
> > sent resumes (and viewed my resume) on Word 2000 and the bullets don't
> > come through good enough, as one example.  I also had a friend who's an
> > HR person at AT&T look over my resume who uses Word and she made some
> > "unfavorable" comments when she opened a SO filtered document.  While we
> > all know that it's probably a MS thing, I can't change her view of
> > resumes. So, what's a person to do?
> > 
> > Well, rather than sending my resume as a .doc file I've started sending
> > it as as PDF file.  Saving my resume in SO as a file (see the print
> > command and "save as file") I then using the ps2pdf command to create my
> > resume in PDF. Boy, in nothing flat, it was done and with a minor change
> > (those pesky bullets again), I had a good looking document to send to HR
> > folks that I know will at least please them and get one step closer to
> > getting in the door and not thrown into the circular file cabinet
> > because it "doesn't look right."
> >