Show HN: MarkdowntoCV

11 hours ago (github.com)

I know, I know: another resume generator.

But this one is simple, easy to customize, and gets to the point: a nicely formatted HTML or PDF document you can share.

Note: Linux and MacOS friendly; not tested on Windows.

I'd like to try this out. Would be nice to have a few examples of pdfs and htmls generated in the repo itself.

Interesting, I created two similar projects:

1. markdown resume:

- https://leftium.com/resume

- plain-text version is human-friendly: https://leftium.com/resume?text

- also renders OK on Github: https://github.com/Leftium/leftium.com/blob/main/src/routes/...

- PDF version is produced by printing from browser. (Try Cmd-P)

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2. invoice generator

- Uses shell scripts instead of make

- Uses weasyprint instead of wkhtmltopdf

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Some samples would be nice. Curious how the default output settings look.

  • Nice. Yours seems to be only for promoting your own resume, right? Mine's a tool for a user to control, customize, and create their own, locally.

    • Effectively the same. (If your project's resume.md had your details, would it prevent others from using it as a tool?)

      Steps for a user to create their own resume (locally):

      1. clone repo

      2. update the resume.md file

      3. run the server locally `npm run dev --open`

      4. print from browser (as PDF)

      - My version happens to contain a web server that serves the HTML resume (among other pages).

      - You can also preview the results in real-time as you edit the MD file.

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      Compare to steps with your tool:

      1. clone repo

      2. update the resume.md file.

      3. run `make`

      (I omitted all the setup steps for the sake of comparing the major steps. I suppose if I added a makefile, the steps would be exactly the same.)

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