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thedreadvampy · 1 year ago

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or write it in a normal document editor and save it as a normal pdf which literally all formatable document editors let you do, and which allows you to save the thing in the programme you're already using?

literally it's a two click save process in every document editor I've ever touched. there are certainly advantages to using a specific typesetting package but frankly for something like a CV the time it takes to familiarise yourself with a new programme isn't worth the improvement you'll get from it. and I'm speaking as someone who makes my CV in InDesign BUT! that's because I Am Already Using InDesign.

save your CV as a pdf so the formatting doesn't get fucked. you can do this by going to 'save as' 'pdf'. it will look exactly as good as most people's CVs need to which is to say - tidy, readable, with line breaks, page breaks and margins where you put them. not everything requires the cleverest available tool sometimes it requires the Easiest Way To Not Fuck Things Up.

#red said #like no offense pal but this one just baffles me. CVs don't require in depth typesetting tools #you need to export them as a PDF so they read right and fit on the right bits of the right page #unless you're doing it in fuckin. Notepad or something. you do not need to move off whatever editor you're already using.#like there's loads of fancy typesetting tools but you only NEED them if you're doing loads of fancy typesetting #and almost nobody does do that outside specialist fields and for people who don't do that a specialist tool is a barrier not a help #that's why. even though InDesign is objectively way way way better for doing document layouts #i only usually train people to use Canva. it does less which means people are more able to use it

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