[Leaplist] Linux Job

[Kevin Korb]

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Have you ever considered the possibility that it is a rather simple test
to see if you can follow directions?

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:50:10 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 11:11:24 Jim Hartley wrote:
> > I ran into one job listing where they not only wanted resumes in DOC
> > format, but they insisted on having an up-to-date version of DOC. My
> > resume had been stored in some older version of DOC (probably 95?) and
> > when I used OpenOffice to update it, I just re-saved it in the same
> > format.
> >
> > Nope, no good! Had to save it in, at least, Word97 format so their
> > software could scan it. "Pathetic" sounds like a good word to use here!
> >
> > Jim Hartley
> 
> Who are these guys? I'm gonna send em a LyX resume just to rattle their
> cage.
> 
> At least Word 97 or we can't scan it? I guess this would be too
> difficult:
> 
> strings < myresume.doc
> 
> That might not work well for the new XML style documents, but it sure as
> heck would work for everything before that since Wordstar (wordstar
> flipped the high order bit for word wrapping reasons).
> 
> Can't scan Word95? Lame. Tired. And yes, Pathetic!
> 
> SteveT
> >
> > Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > > Yes, it can store images.
> > >
> > > However, unlike a content editor, which uses text content with fonts,
> > > PDF does not require text be stored with fonts, but text could be
> > > rastered as images instead.
> > >
> > > But yes, I agree, their support limits are rather pathetic.
> > >
> > > -- Bryan
> > >
> > > P.S.  They do take text upload instead of DOC.  ;)
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----
> > >
> > > From: Richard F. Ostrow Jr. <rich at warfaresdl.com>
> > >
> > > Wait a minute... word can't store images?
> >
> > --
> > Teen Angel - a ghost story - http://teenangel.netfirms.com
> 


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	Kevin Korb			Phone:    (407) 252-6853
	Systems Administrator		Internet:
	FutureQuest, Inc.		Kevin at FutureQuest.net  (work)
	Orlando, Florida		kmk at sanitarium.net (personal)
	Web page:			http://www.sanitarium.net/
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