So many Resume builders out there, but I wanted something that

• requires just a text editor to edit the resume
• could be customized easily through CSS
• a CLI command to generate the PDF

This repo will now serve as a repo for my own resume (minus phone number) and of course the script to generate it.

Markdown Resume to PDF Generator

Build, style, and export your resume using just a text editor and a single command.

This tool converts a Markdown resume (resume.md) into a styled PDF using HTML and CSS with the help of WeasyPrint.

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🧩 Setting up

Windows specific setup (mandatory)

curl -L https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2025-02-21/msys2-x86_64-20250221.exe -o mysys.exe

Run the installer and follow the instructions to install MSYS2.

in MSYS2’s shell, execute pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-pango

Close MSYS2’s shell.

Install Dependencies (all platforms)

You must have Python 3 and markdown and weasyprint packages installed.

pip install -r requirements.txt

💡 On Linux WeasyPrint may require additional system libraries like libpango, cairo, and gdk-pixbuf depending on your OS.

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⚙️ Usage

Edit your Resume

1. Open docs/resume.md in your favorite text editor (e.g., VSCode, Notepad, Vim).
2. Update the content with your personal information, education, work experience, projects, skills, awards, and languages.
3. Save the changes.

💡 You might need to know Markdown syntax to customize the format. Read this to learn it in 4 minutes. Custom markdown syntax is also documented.

(optional) Edit CSS

1. Open src/style.css to customize the appearance of your PDF.

To generate the PDF:

1. Linux:

chmod +x build.sh
# run
/build.sh -i docs/resume.md -o docs/resume_sanitized.pdf --sanitize true # false if you want to skip sanitization

2. Windows

rem run without sanitization
python .\build.py -i .\docs\resume.md -o .\docs\resume.pdf
rem run with sanitization
python .\build.py -i .\docs\resume.md -o .\docs\resume_sanitized.pdf --sanitize true

sanitize flag when true, builds the resume with phone number masked. This is useful if you want to share your resume publicly without exposing your phone number.

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📝 Customization

• Edit src/style.css to change how the PDF looks (fonts, margins, colors)
• Update docs/resume.md with your resume content in Markdown

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📜 License

• BSD 3-Clause License : WeasyPrint
• BSD 3-Clause License : Markdown
• BSD 3-Clause License : This Project