Dan Anglin
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Allow users to limit the amount of employment history shown in the PDF document by specifying a time range. This is a breaking change as the structure of the CV needs to slightly change. The employment's start and end dates need to be represented as integers. Additional refactoring: - The CV type is now in the internal cv package. - The template functions are now in the internal templateFuncs package.
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Spruce - A tool for building CVs
Overview
Spruce is a tool that generates a PDF document from a CV written in JSON. The PDF generation is completed in two steps:
- The application parses the JSON document and generates a TEX file using the TEX template files located in the templates directory.
- The application then uses ConTeXt to generate the final PDF document from the generated TEX file.
Dependencies
If you are interested in generating your own CV, then below is a list of dependencies that you'll need to install:
- Go: Please go here to download the latest version of the Go programming language.
- ConTeXt: You can go to the installation page to find out how to install ConTeXt for your Operating System.
- The Carlito font (ttf-carlito): A free, metric compatible alternative to the Calibri.
- For Ubuntu/Debian installation you can use
apt
:$ apt install font-crosextra-carlito
- For Arch Linux you can use
pacman
:$ pacman -S ttf-carlito
- Alternatively you can download the font from https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/carlito
- Once this font is installed you'll need to update ConTeXt so it can find the font when generating the PDF:
$ OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts $ mtxrun --script fonts --reload
- For Ubuntu/Debian installation you can use
Generating the example PDF Document
You can generate a PDF from the example CV by running the following command:
$ go run . --input example/cv.json
This will create a file called cv.pdf
which you can view in your favourite PDF viewer.
Inspirations
- The Markdown Resume - This project uses ConTeXt and pandoc to convert Markdown based CVs into multiple formats including PDF, HTML and DOCX. This is where I discovered ConTeXt.
- melkir/resume - This project generates CVs using Go and LaTeX.