Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?
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On 02/21/08 21:54, Chuck Rhode wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:39:30PM -0500.
> My reply is below.
>
>> It would appear that there isn't.
>
> Employment applications piss me off. Every employer's is unique.
> Every employer's was designed on a Mac and saved as a *.pdf.
> Employers care nothing for attaching a blank application to an eMail
> without a thought as to how you're supposed to get it back to them.
> There ought'a be an ANSI Standard!
>
> I am so pissed I've taken a passive/aggressive approach. Slavishly I
> convert the *.pdf to a series of *.jpg files with the *pdfimages*
> utility from the *poppler-utils* package. Even more slavishly I open
> an Oo.org document, insert a bunch of page breaks, and stuff each
> separate *.jpg in the background of its own separate page. Then I
> painstakingly type over the top of each image being sure to use a
> 10-point bold Courier font, which is way too big for the miniscule
> blanks the Mac people think are appropriate. I have to buck and weave
> with paragraph spacing and tab stops. Each application can take
> upwards of two hours to complete, but my time is worth less than
> nothing apparently, and I should appreciate the privilege I'm given to
> make such applications.
How do you sign your name to the employment application?
> Finally, I export the whole Oo.org document back to *.pdf and attach
> it to a return eMail. This saves me postage and sticks the employer
> with the expense of printing the application out. Turkeys!
>
> So far I've done this dozens of times without receiving the favor of a
> reply.
Why am I not surprised?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and
make them into big productions."
Pitr Dubovitch
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