I'm having trouble copying and pasting some Chinese characters from a PDF file onto a spreadsheet. It shows up as a box (on Windows) or nothing at all (on Mac OS X) when I copy it onto any application including Excel, Google Sheets, etc. Any help?
Within Office products, you are dealing with character sets. Whether the rights ones are available and being employed is another story. If on a Windows machine, it may be helpful to check for updates, view optional updates, and install any of the language packs you need/want. Here, I am assuming that the office products actually make use of those language packs. That may not be the case. I'm leaning towards character sets. All word processing tools use them, commonly it is just UTF-8. Another option is to avoid control + v (or command + v) , and just option click to get the sub menu where you can "paste special".
Should a CV be sent to the recruiter in a Word or a PDF format?
A CV should be sent in any format the recruiter asks for.The problem with the .doc or .docx file type is the fact that it’s an editable format.Your resume might look different on different computers depending on the operating system, text processor and its version, the default settings and formatting, installed fonts etc.If you’ve optimized the formatting of your CV layout (as you should), you might self-sabotage your efforts by going with the MS Word file format.But then again, the Word format is great for the very same reason — it’s editable!If the recruiter works for an agency, they might want to edit your file:fix a typo,update your resume if they learn something has changed,remove certain types of information (e.g., contact information in case they don’t want the company to be able to skip the middleman — them),add some clause on top or bottom,add a “letterhead” or company logo,add a watermark,add a cover sheet or note.PDFs are intended to look the same across operating systems and readers.In principle, they should carry all the information required to keep the layout and look in check. Just make sure you embed the font if you chose one which isn’t Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana etc.What’s more, .pdf files are supported by pretty much all browsers and mobile devices (and even online email accounts.) This matters because people do quite a lot of work on their cells and tablets nowadays. This includes recruiters who want to have a quick look at your CV.Just one note of caution —Be careful if you have to upload your resume via an ATS.Some applicant tracking systems have trouble parsing CVs in PDF. You might have to upload your CV as a Word document or make sure your PDF resume is ATS-friendly—Just like the ones created with the Uptowork resume builder. Get your ATS-ready, perfect PDF resume here.(This is a screenshot of a sample .pdf resume created with our Uptowork resume builder. Make your own here.)Still not sure which file format to choose? Read this in-depth guide and decide on the best file type for your resume.
What is the best free alternative for Indesign?
For professional-grade layout software for print, the only free one that comes close is Scribus.For Illustrator, the alternative would be InkScape.Dont even get into the beginners' free alternatives like Canva. As a professional printer (HP Indigo 7600 with DFE and Komori Lithrone 429 2013 with Screen CTP), it gives me such pain to fix and manage files from newbie design apps. I mean those are fine but dont expect proper colors and borders. Bleed, separations, and such are very important. So are technicalities such as outlines, transparencies, element borders, spots, rich blacks, and even color profiles.We had yesterday a client who wanted their print in 1-color Black with a PDF from Canva. Not only was the conversion to black and white somehow quirky but the transparency effect they used didnt work with our autonatic bleed maker that mirrored the file since somehow the colors were off too. Opening the file in Photoshop resulted in a weird crop. Converting the file in Acrobat Pro wouldnt yield a consistent result. I had to put the file into InDesign, make a Postscript file, then distill it before I was able to properly process the file.All because Canva did somethinf non-print standard to the file.Save yourself and your printer the trouble and stick to professional-grade software or in an Adobe ecosystem. If you will go with a non-Adobe program, make sure to run your PDF/postscript thru Acrobat Distiller in Press-Quality preset to 'print standardize' the file. You might see changes like text going missing and images getting corrupted which means the original PDF was malformed. If that file went into printing directly, well, bad things will happen. Printers like us often dont 'redistill' the file since it takes a while and some unnecessary conversions may happen so we only do it to special cases.Again save yourself and your printer the trouble and buy at least Acrobat Distiller. You can also use an old version of Indesign like CS4-CS6. We stuck with CS2 until CS5 came out then migrated to CS3 because of a sale. Then just recently migrated to CS6 because of software sale in a local store and due to our plug-ins requiring at least CS6 now.
How can I convert a PDF to XML?
For what purpose? XML is a way to structure data in a human and machine readable fashion, but can be used for MANY different things.Do you want an XML representation of EVERYTHING in the PDF? If so, there are no standard XML that can do that. Do you simply want a limited representation of each page? If so, you could use SVG, though that would be lossy since PDF can represent many graphical concepts that SVG cannot (for example, Spot Colours).Did you have a PDF form that you want the data from? That's pretty easy and there is an ISO standard that comes with PDF, called XFDF, for representing that form information.Or something completely different!??