vinaysomawat / Resume-Builder

A customizable web-based template editor utilizing Javascript, designed to create personalized resumes and letters in a variety of formats.

Resume generator

Web based editor to create Resume in a customizable template with the facility to save the file in .pdf formate.

If you enjoy this project, please consider supporting me to continue developing and maintaining it.

Live Demo : https://vinaysomawat.github.io/Resume-Builder/

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Note : Click the "VIEW INSTRUCTIONS" button in the editor to read usage instructions.

Features

• Resume content can be edited just like a normal document editor (cut,copy,undo etc).
• Entire sections can be added, reordered, removed just by cut,copy,pasting method.
• Section visibility can be toggled while retaining the content.
• Options provided in the left panel to modify the template and formatting.
• Sub-points can be added with various bullet styles and adjustable indentation.
• Script provided to merge multiple pages and compress the PDF.

Using the merge & compress script

• You must be able to run python file on your system for this.
• Save the individual pages in PDF format with name 1.pdf , 2.pdf
• Download the compress_pdf.py file and open it in a text editor.
• Set the following variables :
  • dir_path : Directory path where you saved the PDFs for individual page
  • num_of_pages : Number of files to merge (i.e. pages in your Resume)
  • out_file : Name of output file
• Run this python file.
• Note: As this creates a new PDF file, you may have to see permission settings or run with sudo on terminal.

Note : Use Google Chrome

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To setup the project on your local machine:

1. Click on Fork.
2. Go to your fork and clone the project to your local machine.
3. git clone https://github.com/vinaysomawat/Resume-Builder.git

To contribute to the project:

1. Choose any open issue from here.
2. Comment on the issue: Can I work on this? and get assigned.
3. Make changes to your fork and send a PR.

To create a PR:

Follow the given link to make a successful and valid PR: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/

To send a PR, follow these rules carefully,otherwise your PR will be closed:

1. Make PR title in this format: Fixes #IssueNo : Name of Issue

For any doubts related to the issues, i.e., to understand the issue better etc, comment down your queries on the respective issue.