This repo generates a PDF for my CV. I also use this repo to track changes to that document.
The CV is written in markdown under the document.md file.
This markdown file first generated to HTML, then puppeteer is used to generate a PDF.
Github will rebuild the PDF automatically when tagged and upload to Github releases. This is then linked to from the netlify page cv.benjamingwynn.com - we could serve the CV as HTML but for consistency I want everyone to have a PDF.
Either with pnpm or npm run pnpm i to download dependencies. This is pure node.js project without Typescript.
Run pnpm start to start the dev server, this serve a web server at localhost:8080 where the document will be rendered to HTML, and will be reloaded whenever the source document (document.md) changes.
The web server also injects additional CSS so that the page will be rendered at A4 page size with matching margins of the PDF.
This allows one to style their document and see changes apply in real-time.
To generate a PDF simply do one of:
- Hit F5 in VSCode
- Run
pnpm run open - Run
node build/print.mjs
The PDF will be outputted to the out folder, and open automatically (provided you're on macos or xdg-open is installed)
To build without opening the PDF, do either:
pnpm run buildnode build/print.mjs --no-open
The PDF's name will include either the current timestamp with "WIP" or the tag name if the last commit is tagged. To tag and set a name:
git tag draft-n
This will then change the output to cv-2024-draft-n.pdf and add draft-n in faint text at the bottom right of the document.
To deploy, tag the release above ^ then push the tags:
git push --tags
Github Actions will automatically release a PDF, and cv.benjamingwynn.com will be updated to point to it.
The webserver and PDF generation only support a single file, so there's no current support for external images/fonts which are served from the local machine. However, external links do work fine.