latexcv

Great first impression

Stand out with a pixel-perfect layout. Give decision makers and HR only most important information about you in one single page or provide a complete and extensive full curriculum viate.

Beginner friendly

Pick a template, replace the content, compile, done. If that's not enough you can easily customize colors, fonts and layout. The templates are documented directly in the code.

Minimal environment

You need a minimal tex-live distribution to compile the templates. No XeTeX, Koma or LuaTeX required. No other SDKs or environments required.

How to build?

There are multiple ways to build your very own version of these templates.

Using Overleaf

Most of the templates are also available on Overleaf, an online LaTeX editing and publishing tool.

Just pick one and start editing without any local installation required:

• Classic
• Modern
• Two Column
• Sidebar
• Left sidebar
• Row Layout
• Infographics

Using Docker

We now have a Dockerfile you can use to build your latex environment. For this you need to have Docker installed on your system.

Get Docker: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/

We provide scripts for building the image and running the containers, so you should fine by simply running the build.sh script:

$ .docker/create_image.sh

You should now be able to build CVs simply by providing the folder name:

$ .docker/build.sh classic

Constraints: You need to be in the top-level folder of this project and the image has been created (see prior step).

You can also run a daemon and pass through build commands, suitable if you build many times in sequence:

$ .docker/daemon.sh
$ .docker/dbuild.sh classic
$ .docker/dbuild.sh modern
$ # ... and so on

This has originally been implemented by https://github.com/blang/latex-docker/tree/master

Manual build

The following guide just briefly describes the requirements and build procedure as there are many ways to install a LaTeX distribution on various OS. Please create an issue, if this part is not helpful.

Build Requirements

You will need some minimal Texlive distrubution (The full texlive distribution is nearly 2GB large but you will need only a part of it). A good starting point is here: https://www.latex-project.org/get/#tex-distributions

If you want to install texlive from tug.org instead, you can use this guide: https://tug.org/texlive/

Users of various Linux distrubutions can also install texlive from their repositories.

This repo also contains a texlive.profile file in the project root, that can be used to install the minimum required texlive packages when manually installing texlive.

Build Procedure

• Clone or download this project.
• Change to a template folder, which contains a main.tex file do
• Edit the main.tex according to your CV credentials, optionally change settings and colors etc.
• Run pdflatex (build/compile)

• The main.pdf should show the output.

Contribution

Contributors are very welcome. You want to contribute? Awesome! Please check the contribution guidelines first to make it a success.

Sponsors

:heart: Thanks a lot to all sponsors of this project, your contribution will help to keep this project going:

• janemiceli

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014-2021 Jan Küster

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.