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. 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. -- .. Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA .. Weather: http://LacusVeris.com/WX .. 5° — Wind Calm — Sky overcast. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
