Automatic generation of PDF

[bjornamr]

Hi

So the basic Idea I have in my fork of your code is that every time I update my resume, the PDF I have linked on my fork is updated.

I have added two things to the fork to make that happen:

• A github action that renders and commits a PDF every time a change is done on the repo.
• A PDF link similar to webpage link in config.yml and updated _includes/icon-links.html

You can take a look at my example on https://bjornamr.github.io/resume-template/

Do you want me to do a new fork and include these changes into a pull request?
Maybe update the README.md to explain how to create an access token.

[jglovier]

@bjornamr wow, this is really cool!!

How much control do you have over the typography? I wonder if we can use some custom CSS to style the output for the PDF a little more page friendly?

[bjornamr]

Inserting action.yml file for reference: Action.yml

I am a bit unsure of how much control we have and I am no expert at styling or CSS. I see that puppeteer is what is used behind one of the steps called SetiZ/web_to_pdf_action.

It seems to be based of this repo: fifsky/html-to-pdf-action#1
If you take a look at html to pdf - fifsky it seems like it might be possible to add css and custom fonts.

Would you be able to take a look at the fifsky solution? Maybe it is possible to include some fonts and css to generate better PDF.

[bjornamr]

I have an Idea @jglovier after looking into this a little. From what I understand, to be able to control the PDF, you would have to write special css / sass for printing.

This would make it possible to have full control and give you the ability to control fonts, placement etc.

[jglovier]

Oh nice! Yeah I can def make a custom stylesheet for the print layout.

Not sure when I'll have some free time to work on it, but it's on my radar now. 👍

[bjornamr]

Just wanted to add that I figured out a bug in the action, so I updated it in the fork.

[jglovier]

Awesome! Thanks for the update, and for your patience. 🙇 Still on my radar.

[alterstep]

It is going to be added to the upstream project?

[bjornamr]

@jglovier If you could give me some pointers or just some help to start up, I am sure I can help doing some of it.
I am not so well versed on front-end development.

[readycode15]

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