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Tempest1981

Some companies want resumes submitted as text or .DOC, for easier keyword searching perhaps. Or to avoid viruses? So the recruiter may OCR the PDF, then "improve" on it.

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Why bother?

Apparently everyone keeps forgetting that PDFs are editable.

It's really not made to be and with the exception of an embedded file that's actually editable (eg: LibreOffice optionally keeping an ODT version inside the PDF), "editing" a PDF tends to be a disaster of trying to match the layout with whatever text you are attempting to edit.

Certain tools, such as Word and LibreOffice, make it a bit easier as most of the source text is in the document, others like LaTeX end up looking like garbage through machine processing.

Although if you're just trying to add a bullet point to the end of a list that would often be fairly straightforward.

Does the PDF contain the whole font in such a way that anyone can add text in that font? I ask because I use uw-garamond from the Mathdesign package.

It can. You decide if the font should be embedded or not.

Roger dodger. Gonna have to convert everything to vector drawings to be safe.

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