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@dgar@aus.social: "Them: Can you explain this gap in your résumé? Me: I spent six hours formatting it in Google Docs and you’ve opened it in Word."
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

That's why pdf, it has annotation feature while being not editable.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    PDFs are absolutely editable, but usually you need paid application for that. Thanks to some dumbassery in my previous job, I had to use the paid version of Adobe because I regularly had to edit PDFs. There are some security options that can make PDFs more challenging to edit, even with the paid tools, but I've always found ways around those too, usually by simply using "Print to PDF", then editing the output file.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think you can open PDFs in libreoffice and edit them, although you have to manually reexport as pdf when you're done

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you're applying somewhere that's annotating the file instead of printing it out and writing on it in pen, they should be able to buy an enterprise license for some PDF editor or other. Or the knowledge to find a free PDF editor somewhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Isn’t is possible to send a Word doc in read only mode? I’ve been sending mine PDF as I search recently but some companies do require a docx or at least have in the past

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