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[Solved] Any opensource, themed CV generators out there? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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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.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Markdown and HTML are both examples of markup languages but that doesn't mean that the words are interchangeable.

It is not possible under any circumstance to represent all that HTML supports within markdown.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Which is why, converting to similiar representation.

You've read only the first sentence of my answer, right?

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 2 days ago

I read all of it multiple times, before and after editing, and it's clear to me that we're failing to communicate.