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Awesome timing. Just started work on a LinkedIn alternative called https://jaresume.com https://jaresume.com We need a reliable way of turning peoples resumes

Awesome timing. Just started work on a LinkedIn alternative called https://jaresume.com https://jaresume.com We need a reliable way of turning peoples resumes into PDF's Going to give this a go today or tomorrow. Doing it with https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer also works quite well

NetOpWibby 8y ago
Seems like a neat project.
- thomasfromcdnjs 8y ago
  Thanks! Feedback always welcomed.
dvh 8y ago
Why not simply press Ctrl+p and print to PDF?
- thomasfromcdnjs 8y ago
  We have tried it in the past, just doesn't work reliably with different html configurations. Does ctrl+p on this page -> https://jaresume.com/thomas https://jaresume.com/thomas look good for you?
  - rcfox 8y ago
    For me, when I load the page, I see a resume display and then a split second later it's all replaced with "AN UNEXPECTED ERROR HAS OCCURRED." Is the error so critical that it must hide your content? Did it accidentally include your AWS keys or something?
    - thomasfromcdnjs 8y ago
      Sorry about that. I had just introduced a bug for anonymous users. Should work now.
  - rcfox 8y ago
    Have you tried using a print media stylesheet? You could hide the navigation, reduce the whitespace, maybe shrink the font size a little bit, and remove link text decoration.
    - thomasfromcdnjs 8y ago
      Great idea. I have used print media sheets in the past, but found them easy to have regressions e.g. elements that are introduced but not hidden. A webpage to pdf process is also vunerable to that though. I think ideally, because the resume renderer is a react component, I'd rather just boot up chromium with the react component and resume data and do a fully clean render of the page into pdf. We shall see.
ivanche 8y ago
Such an interesting concept! I just signed up one minute ago so I can't give much more of a feedback but I wish you a great success with this!
vfulco2 8y ago
I venture there is huge money in a sweet path from latex resumes in pdf format to ms word. I want to offer my clients a basic template but if I choose the latex route, I will inevitably have requests for the latter no matter how lame the format.

NetOpWibby 8y ago

Seems like a neat project.

thomasfromcdnjs 8y ago
Thanks! Feedback always welcomed.

dvh 8y ago

Why not simply press Ctrl+p and print to PDF?

thomasfromcdnjs 8y ago
We have tried it in the past, just doesn't work reliably with different html configurations. Does ctrl+p on this page -> https://jaresume.com/thomas https://jaresume.com/thomas look good for you?
- rcfox 8y ago
  For me, when I load the page, I see a resume display and then a split second later it's all replaced with "AN UNEXPECTED ERROR HAS OCCURRED." Is the error so critical that it must hide your content? Did it accidentally include your AWS keys or something?
  - thomasfromcdnjs 8y ago
    Sorry about that. I had just introduced a bug for anonymous users. Should work now.
- rcfox 8y ago
  Have you tried using a print media stylesheet? You could hide the navigation, reduce the whitespace, maybe shrink the font size a little bit, and remove link text decoration.
  - thomasfromcdnjs 8y ago
    Great idea. I have used print media sheets in the past, but found them easy to have regressions e.g. elements that are introduced but not hidden. A webpage to pdf process is also vunerable to that though. I think ideally, because the resume renderer is a react component, I'd rather just boot up chromium with the react component and resume data and do a fully clean render of the page into pdf. We shall see.

ivanche 8y ago

Such an interesting concept! I just signed up one minute ago so I can't give much more of a feedback but I wish you a great success with this!

vfulco2 8y ago

I venture there is huge money in a sweet path from latex resumes in pdf format to ms word. I want to offer my clients a basic template but if I choose the latex route, I will inevitably have requests for the latter no matter how lame the format.