Pandoc-ModernCV is a Pandoc fa­cil­i­ties for type­set­ting mod­ern cur­ricu­lums vi­tae. Inspired by the well known Latex ModernCV, it is fairly cus­tomiz­able, al­low­ing you to use predefined themes and to define your own style by changing colors, fonts, etc.

With Pandoc-ModernCV simply write your CV in Markdown, compile it and publish it in a snap.

Pandoc-ModernCV currently supports pdf and html5 export formats. The html5 output is responsive and supports rendering for small to large screens.

Preview & Screenshots

HTML5

Live html5 preview here

Screenshot of the HTML scaffold CV taken for a large screen.
See also medium-screen preview or small-screen preview

PDF

Live pdf preview here

Screenshot of the PDF scaffold CV. Notice the QR-Code

Requirements

For building your CV in html you need:

• Compass,
• Susy,
• RSync,
• Pandoc

For exporting your CV to pdf you need:

• wkpdf or wkhtmltopdf:
  • wkpdf (MacOS X), http://plessl.github.io/wkpdf/
  • wkhtmltopdf (Linux, Windows), http://wkhtmltopdf.org/
• exiftool, http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Installation

Install Compass and Susy:

$ gem install compass
$ gem install susy

Install wkpdf or wkhtmltopdf. If on MacOSX please check Troubleshooting section for installing correctly wkpdf.

Install Pandoc by using your package manager or by using the provided installer http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html (or using cabal)

Install exiftool by using your package manager (use brew on Mac)

rsync should already be installed... if not, install it using your package manager.

You are done!

Getting Started

The simplest way to get started with pandoc-moderncv is to use the provided scaffold. In a terminal just do:

$ make scaffold
$ make html

What it does it that it creates a scaffold cv located in the /cv directory and builds an html version of it. To open the generated cv just do:

$ open dist/cv.html

To export the CV to pdf just do:

on MacOS X
$ make pdf

on Linux/Windows
$ make pdf HTMLTOPDF=wkhtmltopdf

Hit the link to preview the generated pdf

There you are!

Customize

Metadata

Your CV can be customized with metadata. Metadata are located between two --- separators at the top of the cv.md file and are formated using the YAML format:

---
lang: en
title: Résumé Title
firstname: Firstname
lastname: Lastname
photo: images/picture.png
email: contact@yoursite.com
mobile: '+1 (234) 567 890'
address:
  city: City 
  country: Country
settings:
  protect-mobile: true
  protect-email: true
---

put here your *CV* data

Currently Pandoc-MordernCV supports the following metadata:

Private & Public CV

It is often handy to hide/show specific informations in your CV depending on where it is published/sent. Pandoc-ModernCV supports public and private cv:

• when public:
  • protected metadata are removed.
  • cv/public.md is displayed just after the header and before the CV body.
• when private:
  • protected metadata are displayed.
  • cv/private.md is displayed just after the header and before the CV body.

Protecting Metadata

Currently Pandoc-ModernCV can protect the following metadata:

• email
• mobile
• phone
• fax

Metadata can be (un)protected independently as follow:

---
...
settings:
  protect-mobile: true # this protect *mobile*
  protect-email: false # this unprotect *email*
---

Building Private/Public CV

To build a public CV just do:

$ make html public-cv=true
or
$ make pdf public-cv=true

To build a private CV just do:

$ make html private-cv=true
or
$ make pdf private-cv=true

Themes

Currently pandoc-moderncv supports a single theme: classic.

Feel free to contribute and send me your custom theme!

Colors, Fonts, Icons

All themes can be customized through variables defined in stylesheets/_settings.scss. Currently the variables are:

$base-font-size: 18px;
$base-line-height: 23px;

$photo-width: 182px;
$qrcode-width: 100px;

// Size
$h1-font-size:      $base-font-size*2;
$h1-line-multiple:  2;
$h2-font-size:      $base-font-size*1.5;
$h2-line-multiple:  1.5;
$h3-font-size:      $base-font-size*1.2;
$h3-line-multiple:  1;

// Colors
$firstname-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
$familyname-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
$title-color: rgb(89, 89, 89);
$address-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
$quote-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
$section-rectangle-color: rgb(191, 191, 191);
$section-title-color: rgb(89, 89, 89);
$subsection-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
$hint-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);

// Icons
$external-link-icon: $fa-var-external-link;
$email-icon: $fa-var-envelope-o;
$phone-icon: $fa-var-phone;
$mobile-icon: $fa-var-mobile;
$fax-icon: $fa-var-print;

Troubleshooting

Cannot load such file -- sass/script/node (LoadError)

For some reasons there is a bug when installing the latest version of Compass... your install of Sass get messed up (I didn't have time to investigate: if you have a better workaround/explanation let me know).

To get over it just uninstall sass and install it again:

$ gem uninstall sass
$ gem install sass

Cannot load RubyCocoa library

When trying to install wkpdf on MacOsx you may be told that wkpdf requires that RubyCocoa is installed... The fact is that using wkpdf with non-default Ruby installations is not supported.

You must install wkpdf with the native ruby packaged on your mac:

• https://github.com/plessl/wkpdf/issues/36
• https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv/issues/270

You can use rvm or simply do:

$ sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/gem install wkpdf

To check if your install is correct be sure that the first line of /usr/bin/wkpdf file looks like the following:

#!/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby