Hi all,
I have written to this list before complaining about [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ing
recruiter parasites insisting on resumes in *&{~^%!^$#ing M$ Word
format. Until now I have been persevering with a resume in PDF
format generated from LaTeX input. However, I was always a little
worried that my resume got culled because it was just a little
too difficult for stupid lazy-ass recruiters to deal with.
But now I can finally have my REVENGE! I can send them a file
with a .doc extension, that is generated completely with Free
Software and is almost as easy as generating PDF (although it is
fractionally slower; 30 seconds compared to 5 seconds).
My resume is in 9 .tex files. I run the top level file through
latex2html with the "-no_navigation" option and then run a 60
line Python script over the HTML which cleans out a little
gunk and adds embedded an <style> tag to the <HEAD>. This gets
done in the same Makefile as the generation of PDF using the
following make rule:
resume.doc: $(FULL_SOURCES)
latex2html -html_version 3.2 -no_navigation resume.tex
mv resume/resume.html resume.doc
rm -rf resume
./fixdoc.py resume.doc
The resulting file is clean when validated with wdg-html-validator,
renders beautifully in a web browser and I even went to a cybercafe
to try it out with M$ Word. Even Word renders it so that it is
almost as beautiful as the PDF document.
Another neat little thing that has just fallen into place is that
when I send it as an attachment with Sylpheed, the client dutifully
gives it a mime type of "application/msword". Its just too cool for
words.
>From now on these loathsome recruiter parasites will get what they
think is an M$ Word document but I know is something else :-).
For those interested, the fixdoc.py script is avaiable here:
http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/fixdoc.py
Feel free to hack it for your own purposes.
Erik
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