Nadav Ami

My little blog & personal site.

PDF Resume

Generates a PDF version of the web resume using Jekyll and Playwright (headless Chromium).

Setup

Requires Ruby/Bundler (same as the main site) and Node.js 18+.

cd resume-pdf
npm install

Usage

npm run generate [-- --data <path>] [-- --out <path>] [-- --keep-build]

Options:

• --data <path>, path to a JSON Resume YAML file. If omitted, uses _data/resume.yml.
• --out <path>, output PDF path. Defaults to resume-pdf/out/resume-<name>-<YYYYMMDD>.pdf.
• --keep-build, keep the temporary Jekyll build directory for debugging.

Examples:

# Default resume
npm run generate

# Variant resume
npm run generate -- --data ../variants/company-x.yml

# Custom output path
npm run generate -- --out ~/Desktop/resume.pdf

# Delete all generated PDFs
npm run clean

How it works

1. Runs jekyll build with a config overlay (resume-pdf/_config.yml) that enables the PDF-only resume page and stylesheet. Both are excluded from normal site builds.
2. If --data is provided, sets a RESUME_DATA environment variable. A Jekyll plugin (_plugins/resume_data_override.rb) picks this up and swaps the resume data at build time, with no file modifications.
3. Serves the built site on a local ephemeral port (needed for absolute font paths to resolve correctly).
4. Opens the PDF resume page in headless Chromium, waits for web fonts to load, and prints to PDF with US Letter page size.

License

The content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The code is licensed under the MIT license unless otherwise noted.