[geeks] RHCE advice

[Michael Parson]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:00:12PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>>> I don't send my resumes to gigs requiring a degree in the field, it's
>>> bad enough that they want my resume in Microsoft Word format.  But
>>> that's another rant, for another thread, on another day. =)
>>
>> You know, if you make a plain text file and end the filename with
>> .doc, it will most likely "count" as a Word format file, and load
>> properly (though it will be in the default font for the PC -
>> obviously)...
>
> There are more...creative solutions to that problem:
>
>   1) Take PostScript copy of risumi.
>   2) Use pstops to break each page into individual files.
>   3) Use ImageMagick to rotate each page in an arbitrary direction by
>      less than a degree and convert to JPEG at low quality so that it
>      looks like it's been faxed a few times.  You can use ImageMagick to
>      introduce noise at this step, but there's no sense in going
>      overboard.
>   4) Insert JPEG images into .doc file using TextEdit.app or WordPad or
>      OpenOffice.

I like this idea.  Now if I just had some nice command-line utils to do
that last step.

> I provide my risumi in HTML, PDF, PostScript, and ASCI text.  If their
> computer systems are too retarded to open that in Word, or their
> operators are too lazy to do so, so am I.

My resume is a troff doc that groff can turn into PS (then pdf), HTML,
and ASCII.  I even have a nice little makefile to manage it.  Sadly,
troff->rtf is still a bit lacking.

> For the sake of perversity, I use Microsoft Word for step #4 and then
> "protect" the document so that nothing can be selected or copied
> without typing a password.

That, I like.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org