dkirchhof / application-paper-generator

application paper generator

Installation

1. Install dependencies:

   yarn

2. Build packages:

   yarn build

Usage

1. Insert your personal data into data/data.js.
   The shape of the data is specified in packages/template/src/types/data.ts.

2. Place an image of you and your sign into the data folder. Insert the filenames into the data.me.avatar and data.me.sign fields.

3. Optionally: Review your application paper. Just open the index.html with page param set to coverletter or cv (example: file://.../index.html?page=cv).

4. Create pdfs by using the printing dialog of your browser or by using the cli. If you don't have chromium in your path variable or want to use another chromium based browser, use the --chromium argument to specify the path to it's executable:

   yarn create-pdf --page=coverletter [--chromium=path_to_chromium_based_browser]
   yarn create-pdf --page=cv [--chromium=path_to_chromium_based_browser]

5. Merge all necessary files with a tool of your choice. You can see an example with pdfunite (provided in the poppler package) in the combine.sh file.

Hint

There is no method to change the language. The template is for applications in german. For changing the language, you have to adjust it in the source code.

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