pdf or word doc? Forum
- glitched
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pdf or word doc?
Do you submit personal statement/resumes/addendum as pdf or resume? and what do you title it? thanks
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word doc. Put your name, title of the document, L# in the header.
- AreJay711
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You don't have the option of pdf. I made that mistake and had to re-do my "Send Out" folder with the word documents that my PDF's came from. It was a hassle and I stressed constantly that I made errors that I had corrected on my PDFs but not my word files. (It is still in the back of my mind after checking them multiple times).
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You submit Doc's or Docx's (your choice), then LSAC combines these with the primary application and generates a pdf in the order you upload the files, and you're given the chance to preview the overall application pdf one last time prior to submitting.
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That's weird. If the documents are going to be turned into pdfs anyway why would there be a problem for people who submit their documents as pdfs.mst wrote:You submit Doc's or Docx's (your choice), then LSAC combines these with the primary application and generates a pdf in the order you upload the files, and you're given the chance to preview the overall application pdf one last time prior to submitting.
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- ResolutePear
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...did you do your stuff in LaTeX? No? Then this is a stupid argument.schrizto wrote:That's weird. If the documents are going to be turned into pdfs anyway why would there be a problem for people who submit their documents as pdfs.mst wrote:You submit Doc's or Docx's (your choice), then LSAC combines these with the primary application and generates a pdf in the order you upload the files, and you're given the chance to preview the overall application pdf one last time prior to submitting.
If you did, I'll tip my hat to you and refer you to a tex2doc converter.
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To answer your question, I have no idea why you can not submit a pdf to a pdf maker/combiner.
- im_blue
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Because PDF files can contain all kinds of weird things, such as password protection, edit locking, encryption, etc that makes them a nightmare to combine with other files.
- ResolutePear
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...you havn't really used Word, have you? lol.im_blue wrote:Because PDF files can contain all kinds of weird things, such as password protection, edit locking, encryption, etc that makes them a nightmare to combine with other files.
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The difference is that an applicant can just open up Word, type their PS, and send it to LSAC for easy conversion. However, if the applicant printed that PS from Word to some PDF converter, and then sent it to LSAC, that PDF converter could have easily put some protection on there without the applicant knowing about it.ResolutePear wrote:...you havn't really used Word, have you? lol.im_blue wrote:Because PDF files can contain all kinds of weird things, such as password protection, edit locking, encryption, etc that makes them a nightmare to combine with other files.
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You can convert a .doc to a pdf really easily in Microsoft Word. When I did college apps, I uploaded the documents as pdfs because it actually made the upload time much faster and the spacing/formatting wouldn't change weirdly. I could see how a third party pdf converter could cause problems but converting it in Word shouldn't.im_blue wrote:The difference is that an applicant can just open up Word, type their PS, and send it to LSAC for easy conversion. However, if the applicant printed that PS from Word to some PDF converter, and then sent it to LSAC, that PDF converter could have easily put some protection on there without the applicant knowing about it.ResolutePear wrote:...you havn't really used Word, have you? lol.im_blue wrote:Because PDF files can contain all kinds of weird things, such as password protection, edit locking, encryption, etc that makes them a nightmare to combine with other files.
And I'm not familiar with what LaTeX is .
- ResolutePear
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Most publishers require LaTeX, look it up.schrizto wrote:You can convert a .doc to a pdf really easily in Microsoft Word. When I did college apps, I uploaded the documents as pdfs because it actually made the upload time much faster and the spacing/formatting wouldn't change weirdly. I could see how a third party pdf converter could cause problems but converting it in Word shouldn't.im_blue wrote:The difference is that an applicant can just open up Word, type their PS, and send it to LSAC for easy conversion. However, if the applicant printed that PS from Word to some PDF converter, and then sent it to LSAC, that PDF converter could have easily put some protection on there without the applicant knowing about it.ResolutePear wrote:...you havn't really used Word, have you? lol.im_blue wrote:Because PDF files can contain all kinds of weird things, such as password protection, edit locking, encryption, etc that makes them a nightmare to combine with other files.
And I'm not familiar with what LaTeX is .
When possible I use it because it lets me write out my paper and worry about formatting after the fact.
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