Yea...RIGHT.
Has it not occurred to you that maybe the particular person who is
supposed to vet your CV do not want to bother d/ling the s/w just
to view your CV?
Its all commonsense really. The large majority of computers out
there can read word documents. I do not think that is the same of
pdf files. If you want to send pdf file, by all means do so, but do
not make that the only method of delivery.
Re what i mean when i say it uses more resources than it needs to.
Nowadays, many people and (coys!) use pdf for no reason other than
that it has cross platform compatibility, it is uneditable
(well....) and ....? I suggest that satisfy those simple functions,
the adobe reader software consumes to much computer power and
resources.
btw, you can make word documents editable by clicking on
tools<forms. Its supposed to be a very rudimentary form of
protection but I do not see why on earth anyone would want to make
their CVs uneditable.