I’ve been using Google Docs to store and edit my CV, however I’ve recently run into a number of problems when exporting the file.
Word documents are invariably mangled. This is a common problem because Word format is a de facto standard by virtue of the number of companies using Microsoft Word but formatting varies from version to version, platform to platform so it’s not really a standard at all. It’s more frustrating than web development at times. You spend hours laying out your CV on a Mac only to find that it looks like hell when opened and printed on a PC.
Recruiters and employers that use text-processing algorithms to assess candidates for positions hate PDF documents but for anyone who cares about presentation and wants to guarantee that their potential employers see their CV exactly as they intended, there is no other choice.
Unfortunately, Google Docs insists on adding a line feed to the last line of every document and when you export the file as a PDF this can result in a blank page being appended to the end.
Fortunately you can edit PDFs on linux using pdftk.
For example, to create a new two page PDF from the first two pages of an original try:
pdftk originalCV.pdf cat 1-2 output editedCV.pdf
The application enables many more useful ways to manipulate PDF documents. Read the man pages for further details.