bmaupin / clean-cv-template

Clean CV template

• Inspired by moderncv
• Filler text from Anguish Languish

Why?

A long time ago, like many people I created my CV ("résumé" in the USA) in Microsoft Word. I would typically keep copies of old CVs as I added/removed things over the years, but this became very unwieldy, particularly for tracking changes.

Plain text files are great for tracking changes, so I switched to LaTeX with the popular moderncv template. This too proved challenging; every time I wanted to change the formatting of my CV I had a difficult time because I didn't use LaTeX for anything else.

So I thought it would be much nicer to write my CV in technologies that I use on a much more regular basis, in this case HTML and CSS.

Instructions

Browser

1. Create an HTML file using cv.html as an example

2. Open the file in your browser

3. Print to PDF

Node.js

1. Create an HTML file using cv.html as an example

2. Install Node.js

3. Install prerequisites for build script

   npm install
   

4. Run build script

   npm start /path/to/file.html
   

   Or:

   node . /path/to/file.html
   

Page breaks

Page breaks should not occur in subsection elements. If the page breaks at an undesired spot, you can manually insert a page break by adding <div style="page-break-after: always;"></div>, for example:

<div class="subsection">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>
<div style="page-break-after: always;"></div>
<div class="subsection">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

Create preview image

pdftoppm cv.pdf preview -singlefile -r 100 -png