I love the idea of the json-resume but most stuff I've seen turns the json into a website.

While the websites look nice, often you still need to submit a simple PDF resume.

The script and template included here takes your resume.json (or toml) and generate a simple PDF that looks decent to a human and readable to a robot - not something you could say about a website "print to PDF"

• A resume.json or a resume.toml file
• the recommended vscode addons will help you configure it, but you can just follow my toml example
• Python 3.11 (required for the built in toml library)
  • pip install jinja2
• A LaTeX installation
  • Windows: you probably want MiKTeX
  • Linux: install TeX Live
    • Should be available as texlive in your package manager

This repo includes a task definition file for VSCode, so you can just start the build process (control-shift-b) If you're not using VSCode that's fine, just run the two steps in sequence

• python resume-to-latex.py to build the latex
• pdflatex resume.tex to turn it into a PDF

So you don't need to install the whole LaTeX package on your system

docker build . -t resume-to-pdf

Have a resume.json or a resume.toml file in your current directory and run

docker run \
    --rm \
    -v ./:/resume \
    resume-to-pdf 

Now you can pull a prebuilt image and run it:

docker run \
    --rm \
    -v ./:/resume \
    ghcr.io/calefrey/resume-to-pdf:master

If you have a github gist called resume.json (as per the jsonresume recommendations), you can pass the GITHUBUSER environmental variable rather than keeping a local copy of your json.

docker run \
    --rm \
    -v ./:/resume \
    -e GITHUBUSER={your gh username goes here} \
    ghcr.io/calefrey/resume-to-pdf:master

The new version is built primarily for the web service (see https://resume.freyc.xyz/) so as a result, building locally as a one-off resume is a bit tricker.

You need to do it in two parts. The first pass grabs your data from the github gist, and the second pass renders it into a PDF.

I'm planning to make this into a one-pass process so running it one-off is easier than running the web service, but that's the current state.

docker run \
    --pull=always \
    --rm \
    -v ./:/resume \
    -e GITHUBUSER=calefrey \
    ghcr.io/calefrey/resume-to-pdf:master \
    python3 /app/resume_to_latex.py

docker run \
    --pull=always \
    --rm \
    -v ./:/resume \
    -e GITHUBUSER=calefrey \
    ghcr.io/calefrey/resume-to-pdf:master \
    pdflatex -interaction=batchmode resume.tex

• Make a dockerfile to reduce the number of tools you need to install
• Have github actions generate a container so you don't need to build latex every time
• Let the image pull from a github gist for resume.json
• Make this into a web service using flask to be deployed somewhere
  • https://resume.freyc.xyz
• Allow for easy one-off/static usage now that it's web-first