this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
20 points (100.0% liked)

Programming

28057 readers
280 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
snowe@programming.dev
Ategon@programming.dev
UlrikHD@programming.dev
bugsmith@programming.dev
Spyro@programming.dev
20
[Solved] Any opensource, themed CV generators out there? (programming.dev)
submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
24 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

It's that time again and I'd like to make my life easier. I have multiple CVs for different positions and in different languages. Recruiters and companies want the CVs in PDF.

My current workflow is to sequentially edit the .odts (wording then layout because things move around depending on length), maybe the style, then save and export to PDF. That can take a while, so here I am, wondering if it can be sped up by simply editing a text file and generating CVs with certain themes.

Or what your workflow is. Maybe this isn't worth automating...

Solution

Finally went with RenderCV (thank you @bert@sh.itjust.works), which also runs locally. YAML in, PDF, PNG, HTML, etc. out. It comes with 10 themes or so. Haven't looked at what it take to create my own (I'm lazy).

Contender was JSON Resume, but the site is down and I tried it years ago but never got it to work properly.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] monomon@programming.dev 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Similarly to Onno, I write everything in markdown first, and convert using pandoc. Then I use weasyprint to take the resulting HTML with CSS applied on it, and generate a PDF from all that.

The result is quite nice, and this system has served me for more thant 15 years. A friend working in HR shared that it does stand out, compared to most submissions.

Here's a fragment of Makefile to summarize the concept:

docname=2026

all:
	pandoc -t html5 ${docname}.md -o ${docname}.html
	weasyprint -s ${docname}.css ${docname}.html ${docname}.pdf
[–] clifmo@programming.dev 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm curious why WeasyPrint? Pandoc can output PDF directly

[–] monomon@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago

Since it was a while ago I've forgotten, but I think it didn't interpret the stylesheets correctly. I should probably recheck, because it may have been fixed.