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========
*Generate beautiful, targeted resumes from your command line or shell.*
FluentCV is a **hackable, data-driven, dev-friendly resume authoring tool** with support for HTML, Markdown, Word, PDF, YAML, plain text, smoke signal, carrier pigeon, and other resume formats.
![](assets/fluentcv_cli_ubuntu.png)
Looking for a desktop GUI version with pretty timelines and graphs? Check out [FluentCV Desktop][7].
FluentCV is a Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs. Use it to:
1. **Generate** polished multiformat resumes in HTML, Word, Markdown, PDF, plain
text, JSON, and YAML formats—without violating DRY.
2. **Convert** resumes between [FRESH][fresca] and [JSON Resume][6] formats.
3. **Validate** resumes against either format.
Install it with NPM:
```bash
[sudo] npm install fluentcv -g
```
Note: for PDF generation you'll need to install a copy of [wkhtmltopdf][3] for
your platform.
## Features
- Runs on OS X, Linux, and Windows.
- Store your resume data as a durable, versionable JSON or YAML document.
- Generate polished resumes in multiple formats without violating DRY.
- Generate polished resumes in multiple formats without violating [DRY][dry].
- Output to HTML, PDF, Markdown, MS Word, JSON, YAML, plain text, or XML.
- Compatible with [FRESH][fresh], [JSON Resume][6], [FRESCA][fresca], and [FCV Desktop][7].
- Compatible with [FRESH][fresh], [JSON Resume][6], [FRESCA][fresca], and
[FCV Desktop][7].
- Validate resumes against the FRESH or JSON Resume schema.
- Support for multiple input and output resumes.
- Free and open-source through the MIT license.
- Forthcoming: StackOverflow and LinkedIn support.
- Forthcoming: More themes.
- Forthcoming: More commands and themes.
Looking for a desktop GUI version for Windows / OS X / Linux? Check out
[FluentCV Desktop][7].
## Getting Started
To use FluentCV you'll need to create a valid resume in either [FRESH][fresca]
or [JSON Resume][6] format. Then you can start using the command line tool.
There are three commands you should be aware of:
- `build` generates resumes in HTML, Word, Markdown, PDF, and other formats. Use
it when you need to submit, upload, print, or email resumes in specific formats.
```bash
# fluentcv BUILD <INPUTS> TO <OUTPUTS> [-t THEME]
fluentcv BUILD resume.json TO out/resume.all
fluentcv BUILD r1.json r2.json TO out/rez.html out/rez.md foo/rez.all
```
- `convert` converts your source resume between FRESH and JSON Resume formats.
Use it to convert between the two formats to take advantage of tools and services.
```bash
# fluentcv CONVERT <INPUTS> TO <OUTPUTS>
fluentcv CONVERT resume.json TO resume-jrs.json
fluentcv CONVERT 1.json 2.json 3.json TO out/1.json out/2.json out/3.json
```
- `validate` validates the specified resume against either the FRESH or JSON
Resume schema. Use it to make sure your resume data is sufficient and complete.
```bash
# fluentcv VALIDATE <INPUTS>
fluentcv VALIDATE resume.json
fluentcv VALIDATE r1.json r2.json r3.json
```
## Supported Output Formats
FluentCV supports these output formats:
Output Format | Ext | Notes
------------- | - | -------------
HTML | .html | A standard HTML 5 + CSS resume format that can be viewed in a browser, deployed to a website, etc.
Markdown | .md | A structured Markdown document that can be used as-is or used to generate HTML.
MS Word | .doc | A Microsoft Word office document in 2003 format for widest compatibility.
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) | .pdf | A binary PDF document driven by an HTML theme.
plain text | .txt | A formatted plain text document appropriate for emails or as a source for copy-paste.
JSON | .json | A JSON representation of the resume. Can be passed back into FluentCV as an input.
YAML | .yml | A YAML representation of the resume. Can be passed back into FluentCV as an input.
RTF | .rtf | Forthcoming.
Textile | .textile | Forthcoming.
image | .png, .bmp | Forthcoming.
## Install
@ -31,29 +97,32 @@ FluentCV requires a recent version of [Node.js][4] and [NPM][5]. Then:
## Use
Assuming you've got a JSON-formatted resume handy, generating resumes in different formats and combinations easy. Just run:
Assuming you've got a JSON-formatted resume handy, generating resumes in
different formats and combinations easy. Just run:
```bash
fluentcv generate [inputs] [outputs] [-t theme].
fluentcv BUILD <INPUTS> <OUTPUTS> [-t theme].
```
Where `[inputs]` is one or more .json resume files, separated by spaces; `[outputs]` is one or more destination resumes, each prefaced with the `-o` option; and `[theme]` is the desired theme. For example:
Where `<INPUTS>` is one or more .json resume files, separated by spaces;
`<OUTPUTS>` is one or more destination resumes, and `<THEME>` is the desired
theme (default to Modern). For example:
```bash
# Generate all resume formats (HTML, PDF, DOC, TXT, YML, etc.)
fluentcv generate resume.json -o out/resume.all -t modern
fluentcv build resume.json -o out/resume.all -t modern
# Generate a specific resume format
fluentcv generate resume.json -o out/resume.html
fluentcv generate resume.json -o out/resume.pdf
fluentcv generate resume.json -o out/resume.md
fluentcv generate resume.json -o out/resume.doc
fluentcv generate resume.json -o out/resume.json
fluentcv generate resume.json -o out/resume.txt
fluentcv generate resume.json -o out/resume.yml
fluentcv build resume.json TO out/resume.html
fluentcv build resume.json TO out/resume.pdf
fluentcv build resume.json TO out/resume.md
fluentcv build resume.json TO out/resume.doc
fluentcv build resume.json TO out/resume.json
fluentcv build resume.json TO out/resume.txt
fluentcv build resume.json TO out/resume.yml
# Specify 2 inputs and 3 outputs
fluentcv generate in1.json in2.json -o out.html -o out.doc -o out.pdf
fluentcv build in1.json in2.json TO out.html out.doc out.pdf
```
You should see something to the effect of:
@ -78,8 +147,8 @@ Generating YAML resume: out/resume.yml
You can specify a predefined or custom theme via the optional `-t` parameter. For a predefined theme, include the theme name. For a custom theme, include the path to the custom theme's folder.
```bash
fluentcv generate resume.json -t modern
fluentcv generate resume.json -t ~/foo/bar/my-custom-theme/
fluentcv build resume.json -t modern
fluentcv build resume.json -t ~/foo/bar/my-custom-theme/
```
As of v0.9.0, available predefined themes are `modern`, `minimist`, and `hello-world`, and `compact`.
@ -90,13 +159,13 @@ You can **merge multiple resumes together** by specifying them in order from mos
```bash
# Merge specific.json onto base.json and generate all formats
fluentcv generate base.json specific.json -o resume.all
fluentcv build base.json specific.json -o resume.all
```
This can be useful for overriding a base (generic) resume with information from a specific (targeted) resume. For example, you might override your generic catch-all "software developer" resume with specific details from your targeted "game developer" resume, or combine two partial resumes into a "complete" resume. Merging follows conventional [extend()][9]-style behavior and there's no arbitrary limit to how many resumes you can merge:
```bash
fluentcv generate in1.json in2.json in3.json in4.json -o out.html -o out.doc
fluentcv build in1.json in2.json in3.json in4.json TO out.html out.doc
Reading JSON resume: in1.json
Reading JSON resume: in2.json
Reading JSON resume: in3.json
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```bash
# Generate out1.doc, out1.pdf, and foo.txt from me.json.
fluentcv generate me.json -o out1.doc -o out1.pdf -o foo.txt
fluentcv build me.json -o out1.doc -o out1.pdf -o foo.txt
```
You can also omit the output file(s) and/or theme completely:
```bash
# Equivalent to "fluentcv resume.json resume.all -t modern"
fluentcv generate resume.json
fluentcv build resume.json
```
### Using .all
@ -128,7 +197,7 @@ The special `.all` extension tells FluentCV to generate all supported output for
```bash
# Generate all resume formats (HTML, PDF, DOC, TXT, etc.)
fluentcv generate me.json -o out/resume.all
fluentcv build me.json -o out/resume.all
```
..tells FluentCV to read `me.json` and generate `out/resume.md`, `out/resume.doc`, `out/resume.html`, `out/resume.txt`, `out/resume.pdf`, and `out/resume.json`.
@ -148,13 +217,29 @@ FluentCV will validate each specified resume in turn:
```bash
*** FluentCV v0.9.0 ***
Validating JSON resume: resume.json (INVALID)
Validating JSON resume: resume.json (VALID)
Validating JSON resume: resumeA.json (INVALID)
Validating JSON resume: resumeB.json (VALID)
```
### Converting
FluentCV can convert between the [FRESH][fresca] and [JSON Resume][6] formats.
Just run:
```bash
fluentcv CONVERT <INPUTS> <OUTPUTS>
```
where <INPUTS> is one or more resumes in FRESH or JSON Resume format, and
<OUTPUTS> is a corresponding list of output file names. FluentCV will autodetect
the format (FRESH or JRS) of each input resume and convert it to the other
format (JRS or FRESH).
### Prettifying
FluentCV applies [js-beautify][10]-style HTML prettification by default to HTML-formatted resumes. To disable prettification, the `--nopretty` or `-n` flag can be used:
FluentCV applies [js-beautify][10]-style HTML prettification by default to
HTML-formatted resumes. To disable prettification, the `--nopretty` or `-n` flag
can be used:
```bash
fluentcv generate resume.json out.all --nopretty
@ -185,3 +270,4 @@ MIT. Go crazy. See [LICENSE.md][1] for details.
[10]: https://github.com/beautify-web/js-beautify
[fresh]: https://github.com/fluentdesk/FRESH
[fresca]: https://github.com/fluentdesk/FRESCA
[dry]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself

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