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Jesus, I wish I hadn't brought it up. Like I've said four or five times by now, I get it to a PDF just fine, it's dealing with lovely word documents that annoys me. And since I can apparently do direct PDF editing with Google Docs, I am doing that from here on out rather than loving around with word documents and later exporting them.
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I think you're missing the point. Don't try to edit PDFs. Make the document you want in whatever editor your want, then export. When it's time to update, edit in whatever editor your want, then export the final copy again.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Jesus, I wish I hadn't brought it up. Like I've said four or five times by now, I get it to a PDF just fine, it's dealing with lovely word documents that annoys me. And since I can apparently do direct PDF editing with Google Docs, I am doing that from here on out rather than loving around with word documents and later exporting them.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Jesus, I wish I hadn't brought it up. Like I've said four or five times by now, I get it to a PDF just fine, it's dealing with lovely word documents that annoys me. And since I can apparently do direct PDF editing with Google Docs, I am doing that from here on out rather than loving around with word documents and later exporting them. I hear McDonald's has an excellent management training program. That might be more up your ally
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Dec 26, 2016 06:34
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Lmao you guys are ruthless, on this day of all days
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Dec 26, 2016 06:36
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CLAM DOWN posted:Lmao you guys are ruthless, on this day of all days Canada doesn't celebrate Christmas on the same day as us so get hosed
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CLAM DOWN posted:Lmao you guys are ruthless, on this day of all days
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anthonypants posted:It's Boxing Day Somewhere I meant boxing day as a holy day, duh
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Dec 26, 2016 07:32
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Building AC turned off and temperature alarms are popping off. Spoke too soon about being on call over the holidays. Luckily it's just a matter of opening a door to help vent the room but still.
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Dec 26, 2016 16:18
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CloFan posted:I think you're missing the point. Don't try to edit PDFs. Make the document you want in whatever editor your want, then export. When it's time to update, edit in whatever editor your want, then export the final copy again. Are you guys just loving with me? I feel like I'm being told to do what I'm already doing while also being told what I'm doing is terrible. So this is me seriously asking trying to learn the best way to do something. PDF is the best format to use because it reliably holds formatting across computers/editors/whatever, right? What's the best way to create a PDF? I'm hearing create a document in a text editor and export it. Is that right?
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Dec 26, 2016 17:33
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Does anyone need a new job, as Pokemon Director of Information Security? http://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=POKEMON&cws=1&rid=356
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Dec 26, 2016 17:36
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Just an aside from PDF resume chat. My wife had a recruiter modify a resume of hers a few years back. She had a copy of her original when she interviewed and the guys interviewing pulled out a copy of the doctored one. That recruiter lost that client for the future after they all compared and went wtf? Never give anyone a modifiable resume if you can avoid it. You never know what they'll do with it
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Dec 26, 2016 17:41
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Sirotan posted:Does anyone need a new job, as Pokemon Director of Information Security? http://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=POKEMON&cws=1&rid=356 lmao
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Are you guys just loving with me? I feel like I'm being told to do what I'm already doing while also being told what I'm doing is terrible. So this is me seriously asking trying to learn the best way to do something. I kind of feel bad for dog piling on you on Christmas, especially since you're somewhat new to IT. Here's how you should be doing it: 1. Create resume in Word, just the way you want it. Save the .docx somewhere handy. 2. Export to PDF. There's a built in export option in 2013+, if you have an older version or other editor use something like CutePDF to print to file. 3. Submit PDF copy of resume. 4. When you want to edit, go back to the .docx from step 1 and edit that. 5. Repeat step 2 for your newly revised resume.
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Dec 26, 2016 18:17
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CloFan posted:I kind of feel bad for dog piling on you on Christmas, especially since you're somewhat new to IT. Here's how you should be doing it: Pretty sure that's exactly whats happening. Just the exported PDF somehow differs in format than what he had saved. I've seen the same thing where a print preview looks fine then prints on two different pages and screws up formatting
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Dec 26, 2016 18:27
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Saving a libreoffice doc in msword file format will easily ruin formatting. Doesn't libreoffice have native PDF export?
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CloFan posted:I kind of feel bad for dog piling on you on Christmas, especially since you're somewhat new to IT. Here's how you should be doing it: Yeah, that's what I'm doing, but with Libreoffice and its built in export. The problem is at step 4, where the formatting has frequently changed in the docx. Mewse says that might be because Libreoffice doesn't like word document formats? I never ran into that in school, just with RTFs.
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Dec 26, 2016 18:59
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Yeah, that's what I'm doing, but with Libreoffice and its built in export. The problem is at step 4, where the formatting has frequently changed in the docx. Mewse says that might be because Libreoffice doesn't like word document formats? I never ran into that in school, just with RTFs. If you're going to continue using libreoffice, get a PDF printer and use that to export from the native format to PDF. You'll continue to have a bad time with docx
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Dec 26, 2016 19:35
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LibreOffice is poo poo, do you get access to the MS Home Use program through your work or do you have a student ID still valid or something? Office for 11 bucks rules.
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Dec 26, 2016 19:38
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I'll see if I have a still valid student ID. It might have expired over the summer. I was told Libreoffice was the good free word processor now. I pretty much only ever use it to write papers for college, cover letters, and resumes. If not, maybe I can find a legit discounted foreign key, since at least at work they ask what language you want to use. I am just really not in a position to buy $120 of Office. Actually my brother is still in college, time to buy it through him.
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Dec 26, 2016 19:44
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I am just really not in a position to buy $120 of Office. That's fine, it's just that the free alternatives are utter trash compared to the real thing. Hopefully you can get a cheap copy.
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MS often offers discount codes for employees of companies they do business with, so you can probably take advantage of that too.
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Office 365 Home is $99/yr and you can install it on multiple computers and tablets. Worth every penny.
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Dec 26, 2016 21:38
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I am a o365 subscriber and I am appalled that word online doesn't format heavy customized word documents correctly. What the gently caress office, IT'S YOUR GOD drat FORMAT.
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Dec 26, 2016 21:41
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CLAM DOWN posted:That's fine, it's just that the free alternatives are utter trash compared to the real thing. Hopefully you can get a cheap copy. Google Docs is perfectly acceptable and does everything you need to write resumes and print them to PDF. You might not get all of the obscure Excel and Word features, but what do you expect for free?
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Just use Google Docs.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Yeah, that's what I'm doing, but with Libreoffice and its built in export. The problem is at step 4, where the formatting has frequently changed in the docx. Mewse says that might be because Libreoffice doesn't like word document formats? I never ran into that in school, just with RTFs. Talking about RTF's, what's the last time anyone ever used that format. For me it's probably 10+ years ago.
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I haven't used a CD/DVD in 10 years either.
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Tigren posted:Google Docs is perfectly acceptable and does everything you need to write resumes and print them to PDF. You might not get all of the obscure Excel and Word features, but what do you expect for free? Of course it's perfectly acceptable. So is Office, if you get it for cheap. I was referring to Libre/Open Office mainly
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Methanar posted:I haven't used a CD/DVD in 10 years either.
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LochNessMonster posted:Talking about RTF's, what's the last time anyone ever used that format. RTF is nice when I need to generate dead tree reports with headers on every page since the format is easy to generate in a batch file. Methanar posted:I haven't used a CD/DVD in 10 years either. DVDs are great when I don't want to give someone a thumb drive I may never see again.
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Yeah but the recipient has to actually access the content. And as VC so eloquently stated, who the gently caress even has an optical drive in TYOOL 2016? Maybe this is just my tech company all-Mac bubble showing.
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Docjowles posted:who the gently caress even has an optical drive in TYOOL 2016? I do, for my indie hipster band album releases that are too underground to be on Spotify or Google Music 
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Dec 27, 2016 03:54
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What's a good Windows IRC client now? I'm switching laptops and I was rapidly falling out of love with KVirc.
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Dec 27, 2016 03:59
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I still use mIRC without issue.
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Hexchat for me these days
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CLAM DOWN posted:I do, for my indie hipster band album releases that are too underground to be on Spotify or Google Music They're releasing on Bandcamp or cassette tape these days.
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I work in a very quiet clinic and sometimes it may take hours for new patients to appear to the worklist. Does anyone know about some software which checks a specific screen area for average pixel value changes or something? And then gives an alert.
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Ihmemies posted:I work in a very quiet clinic and sometimes it may take hours for new patients to appear to the worklist. Does anyone know about some software which checks a specific screen area for average pixel value changes or something? And then gives an alert. https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/
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Well at least I have all the time in the world to implement it myself  I should probably start to write a book too to kill the time.
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