And you still need a hard copy, printed on high-quality paper, for companies that use snail mail. You've created a r sum with killer content and a cool design. You've got multiple electronic versions of it. Doing the little things right. Not all text is created equal.
Faxes are fine.
That results in a higher-quality printout on the receiving end. Don't send your r sum as an attachment. Paste it into the body of an email message. Most employers ignore attachments. They worry about viruses, and they don't want to waste time with files that their computers can't translate.