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very high as long as they have a web connection, OpenOffice is your friend
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woohoo said:
No such thing as .NET Framework on Linux, but XPS viewers are available for most operating systems...they just won't be installed as standard. If I received an XPS file I would just dump it and ask for something else that I could read read without installing more software.
PDF really is the standard portable file format, no matter what shortcomings it has. Stick to it if you want less problems.
Carwash said:Translation: Windows is the only modern operating system which does not include this basic functionality as standard. Woohoo, go XPS.
No. Translation : 92% of the installed client operating systems do not include this basic functionality as standard.
PS Linux current around 1%
this is my cv. The .xps weighs in at about 6mb and the .pdf is about 6mb - , so sending everything in both formats pushes it up to over 12mb - too much for some e-mail servers. The .pdf is truly horrible.....pictures hang, and then come in over the top of the text (I'd always thought that .pdfs were like photographs, but, no, they're not). Saving at as .tiff, .gif or .jpeg files means one file per page which is silly. The best, by far, is the .ppsx, but that relies on the person opening it having Powerpoint. Bah!
Any further ideas welcome!
Any further ideas welcome!
dellzeqq said:
If you want to send it in an output format and be confident that the recipient will be able to open it, with a choice between PDF and XPS, normally I'd say that PDF is definitely the way to go, without question - PDF readers are pretty much ubiquitous. Sending your CV as an image or PowerPoint presentation is likely to give a poor impression, IMHO.
But from what you say above, PDF doesn't seem to be doing it for you. Which is a bit odd... what did you use to create the PDF? What was the source file composed in?
dellzeqq said:
You wrote your CV in PowerPoint?! Okay, whatever works for you I suppose!
One thing you can do to reduce the file size - whatever output format you finally decide upon - is to reduce the size of the images in the file. PowerPoint makes this dead easy: right-click on any image in your presenta... *CV*... and go 'Format Picture'; in the Picture tab, click 'Compress'. Under 'Apply to', select 'All pictures in document'; under 'Change resolution', select 'Web/Screen'; under 'Options', select 'Compress pictures'. And click 'OK'. Job done.
If you are using Office 2007, you can save it as a .pdf directly from Powerpoint. I haven't done this myself (religious objection to Powerpoints) so don't know how well it works but it certainly works with Word 2007 (you might have to switch off the anti-virus software during the save because some AV packages seem to think this is an invalid operation).dellzeqq said:
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Carwash said:You wrote your CV in PowerPoint?! Okay, whatever works for you I suppose!
One thing you can do to reduce the file size - whatever output format you finally decide upon - is to reduce the size of the images in the file. PowerPoint makes this dead easy: right-click on any image in your presenta... *CV*... and go 'Format Picture'; in the Picture tab, click 'Compress'. Under 'Apply to', select 'All pictures in document'; under 'Change resolution', select 'Web/Screen'; under 'Options', select 'Compress pictures'. And click 'OK'. Job done.
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On that we agree but I also worked with some actuaries who used Excel for everything including memos, formal letters and organisation charts. (I'm sure power point is OK but I've been on the receiving end of too many bum-numbing .ppt presentations.)Carwash said:You wrote your CV in PowerPoint?! Okay, whatever works for you I suppose!