[Tiresias]

I've found a typo on the jpeg copy of resumé, but have lost the original word file.

I've seen someone -- a Mac geek -- edit text in a jpeg file before, but forgot the key sequence.

Select, Control, Something, Something.

Otherwise I'm typing it all out again.

P.S.

Google yielded nothing.

P.P.S.

This post contains three reasons not to employ me. Four if you include the empty thread. Sorry.

By the way, what do you do if your thread is empty after you post it? I couldn't reply to my own empty thread with the original text or edit it.

[tomrock]

You can't edit any "text" in a jpeg because there isn't any -- a jpeg is all pixels.

If you saw someone edit text on a -picture-, the file format wasn't jpeg. It had to be a layered file (like a .psd or a tiff) with an actual text layer.

[Millennium]

You can't edit text in a JPEG. It's a plain bitmapped graphic: just a series of pixels. The computer has no way of knowing that there's text in the image, much less what that text actually says. Most likely, your friend wasn't actually working with a JPEG. There is some software which can perform OCR on a JPEG to extract text, but these programs create text files for you to edit; they can't write the text back to the original file.

I'm sorry that I can't help more than this; I'm afraid you'll have to type it out again. If I may ask, though, why do you use a JPEG for your resume? Why not use a PDF, or some other vector-based format? The file should be smaller, it would certainly look better when printed, and software which can display PDFs is almost as universal as software which can display JPEGs.

[TETENAL]

PDF isn't really suited for editing text afterwards too (though it is possible to make minor changes like fixing typos). Keep the original Word or Pages file.

[Tiresias]

I do have a second copy of my resumé in PDF format in my email account. Thank you for the advice. I will definitely use that for my resumé from now on.

So it is possible to edit text on a PDF? But I clearly remember my friend -- a graphic designer and long time Mac user -- telling me proudly "I just learnt how to do this the other day" and editing text via select plus some key sequence. Perhaps it was on a PDF after all.

Anyway, I've started retying.