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.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    Sure it’s possible. Different markup languages have different levels of features: some like Markdown only very basic elements, some like asciidoc, orgmode, docbook, html, more differrentiated. There’s 3 approaches converting from complexer to simpler formats:

    • lossless aproach: only convert the supported parts (e.g, dump everything in the output, converted or not)
    • lossy approach: extract the supported parts (discharge everything unsupported)
    • convenient approach: convert the unsupported parts to a similiar element (definition list to - list, figure + figcaption to ![alt]() *caption*, stuff like that)

    I know of Typora doing a good job with the convenient approach, though still partially lossless.

    Sylpheed (E-Mail client) does a good job at the lossy approach, for plain text display of html.

    pandoc does the lossless approach well. But it laso depends on which of the multitude of markdown outputs you’ve picked.