[Leaplist] Linux Job

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

On Tue, November 3, 2009 10:51 pm, John Simpson wrote:
> 99% chance it's careerbuilder who wants a word doc, not the actual
> employer.
>
> and they ask because their software knows how to read a word doc and
> pull out phrases like "system administrator" or "SQL". they can't do
> that with a PDF... although truth be told they probably could, if the
> PDF contained text, however so many scanning programs out there will
> "scan to PDF", there's no guarantee that any given PDF will be
> readable- many PDF files contain images rather than text, and trying
> to explain the difference to most people is more hassle than it's
> worth. when people see "PDF file", they don't understand that it's a
> generic container format which may contain any combination of text,
> images, sounds, animations, and other objects.

Wait a minute... word can't store images?

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