jankapunkt / latexcv

:necktie: A collection of cv and resume templates written in LaTeX. Leave an issue if your language is not supported!

LaTex CV and Resume Collection

👔 A collection of simple and easy to use, yet powerful LaTeX templates for CVs and resumes. All of them are self designed and self implemented and not copied from template collections.

Now with support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean character encoding. Setup is only two lines of code! Read more here.

Classic	Modern	Two Columns

Sidebar	Sidebar Left	Row Layout

Infographics	Infographics 2 EN	Infographics 2 FR

Great first impression

Point out with a progressive layout. Give decision makers and HR only the most important information about you on one single page.

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 or LuaTeX required. No other SDKs or environments required.

How to build?

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

❤️ 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.

latexcv's Issues

Doesn't produce usable files on miktex-xelatex

I tried running the sidebarleft CV through miktex-xelatex, but all I get is a file that I can't open in Google Chrome or in Sumatra PDF, so I assume it's broken.

main.pdf

Bonus: Sidebar-CV template

In return for the 100 stars, I will implement a new cv-template.

The layout should...

• have a sidebar section
• have a content section
• use a modern lightweight font for headlines
• use a standard font for text

The sidebar should...

• the sidebar should be swap-able to left or right
• skills section with star icons (fa-star, fa-star-o)
• fields section
• languages section
• hobbies / social section

The content should...

• contact data
• include a photo
• have a large title (name)
• have a subtitle (e.g. job description)
• have a short statement paragraph
• have an experience, education and a third "custom" section

A section should...

• have a date, title and institution
• have a good space handling (e.g. no extra column for date but have dates inline)
• have a flexible amount of rows to be added

A better way, perhaps? to use FontAwesome

Once again me with the topic of your Infographics CV template. I saw that you use some FontAwesome icons in svg within the template. However, I find it better to make use of the packages that already exist for LaTeX that allow you to include FontAwesome icons.

Because the engine in your templates usually is pdflatex, I suggest using the fontawesome5 package. With this package you have access to lots of FontAwesome 5 icons (not all, I think), but enough to enrich the CV with them almost everywhere because you can use them as if they were text.

This led me to try to redefine the way you work with icons in your template. The overall result seems good to me, although it's far from being perfect:

%\newcommand{\icons}{Font-Awesome-SVG-PNG/}	%path to your icon lib (we can forgot it)
\newcommand{\icon}[2]{\colorbox{thirdcol}{\includegraphics[height=#2]{\icons#1}}}	%icon shortcut
\renewcommand{\icon}[2]{\colorbox{thirdcol}{\textcolor{sectcol}{\Large{#1}}}} %better definition for add fontawesome icons directly from the package IMO
\newcommand{\icontext}[3]{ 						%icon with text shortcut
	\vcenteredhbox{\icon{#1}{#2}} \vcenteredhbox{\textcolor{textcol}{#3}}
}

The main advantage is that you can access hundreds of icons easily, the disadvantage is that as the icons have variable width, the tabbed result is not homogeneous and I have no idea right now how to solve it, but maybe you have a better idea about it.

miktex-makepk did not succeed.

When I compile, change credentials, etc, I get the following error message:

Sorry, but miktex-makepk did not succeed. The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again: C:\Users\aleph\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex\log\miktex-makepk.log

the log file contains:

2020-07-20 18:10:34,490-0400 INFO miktex-makepk - starting with command line: miktex-makepk --enable-installer --verbose Raleway-Bold-tlf-t1--base 600 600 magstep(0.0)
2020-07-20 18:10:34,492-0400 INFO makepk - Trying to make PK font Raleway-Bold-tlf-t1--base at 600 DPI...
2020-07-20 18:10:34,507-0400 INFO makepk - The METFAONT mode is: ljfour
2020-07-20 18:10:34,520-0400 INFO makepk - Running miktex-makemf.exe...
2020-07-20 18:10:34,520-0400 INFO makepk - running: miktex-makemf.exe --miktex-enable-installer --miktex-disable-maintenance --verbose Raleway-Bold-tlf-t1--base
2020-07-20 18:10:35,127-0400 INFO makepk - Running miktex-ttf2pk.exe...
2020-07-20 18:10:35,128-0400 INFO makepk - running: miktex-ttf2pk.exe --miktex-enable-installer --miktex-disable-maintenance -q -t Raleway-Bold-tlf-t1--base
2020-07-20 18:10:54,853-0400 FATAL miktex-makepk - The process terminated due to an access violation.
2020-07-20 18:10:54,854-0400 FATAL miktex-makepk - Info: fileName="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex/bin/x64\miktex-ttf2pk.exe"
2020-07-20 18:10:54,854-0400 FATAL miktex-makepk - Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Process\win\winProcess.cpp
2020-07-20 18:10:54,854-0400 FATAL miktex-makepk - Line: 474
2020-07-20 18:10:58,983-0400 INFO miktex-makepk - starting with command line: miktex-makepk --enable-installer --verbose Raleway-Bold-tlf-t1--base 600 600 magstep(0.0)
2020-07-20 18:10:58,985-0400 INFO makepk - Trying to make PK font Raleway-Bold-tlf-t1--base at 600 DPI...
2020-07-20 18:10:58,991-0400 INFO makepk - The METFAONT mode is: ljfour
2020-07-20 18:10:59,000-0400 INFO makepk - Running miktex-makemf.exe...
2020-07-20 18:10:59,000-0400 INFO makepk - running: miktex-makemf.exe --miktex-enable-installer --miktex-disable-maintenance --verbose Raleway-Bold-tlf-t1--base
2020-07-20 18:10:59,299-0400 INFO makepk - Running miktex-ttf2pk.exe...
2020-07-20 18:10:59,299-0400 INFO makepk - running: miktex-ttf2pk.exe --miktex-enable-installer --miktex-disable-maintenance -q -t Raleway-Bold-tlf-t1--base
2020-07-20 18:10:59,719-0400 FATAL miktex-makepk - PK font Raleway-Bold-tlf-t1--base could not be created.
2020-07-20 18:10:59,719-0400 FATAL miktex-makepk - PK font Raleway-Bold-tlf-t1--base could not be created.
2020-07-20 18:10:59,719-0400 FATAL miktex-makepk - Info:
2020-07-20 18:10:59,719-0400 FATAL miktex-makepk - Source:
2020-07-20 18:10:59,719-0400 FATAL miktex-makepk - Line: 0

More info on installation/packages needed

Documentation says

You will need some minimal Texlive distrubution

I installed both the "small" and "medium scheme" from texlive 2021 installer, but in both cases I am missing some packages needed to build the mordern CV.

! LaTeX Error: File `xifthen.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name: 

! LaTeX Error: File `raleway.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name: 
(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1cmss.fd))

! LaTeX Error: File `moresize.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

The pdf is produced but it does not look completely like the original.

Maybe we can make use of that profile to pass it on to the installation process? Not sure how to do it, though, I will investigate

Clarification of license conditions

Hi,

thanks for the great-looking templates.
The attached MIT license says

"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software."

Would that mean that the copyright also has to be included in the final generated PDF?

could latexcv support chinese string

Typo in the sidebar template

The typo is in a footer "licensed unter MIT license".

Compile errors

Dynamics with longer words / names

A. Problem / Goal

People with double names, e.g. "Schmidt-Müller", could have the problem that their first name and surname are altogether too long when using the template.

The aim would be to provide enough space for people with longer names or for e.g. job titles.

B. Solution

A workaround in the .tex files that takes effect when longer names or terms are entered, which makes it possible to enter longer names or e.g. complete job titles without destroying the formatting of the template.

Conceivable would be either that the font becomes smaller with more text or a new line is created.

C. Alternatives

Templates for people with longer names cannot be used

New Symbols

I would suggest that new symbols are added in the following section (see quoted source code above), e.g.

• Mastodon
• Pixelfed
• PeerTube
• CastoPod
• vutuv
• Friendica
• Lemmy
• funkwhale
• diaspora*

\mystrut
\vspace{-12pt}

\begin{tabular*}{1\textwidth}{ c c c}
	\parbox[c]{0.4\linewidth}{
		\colorbox{thirdcol}{\HUGE{\textcolor{titletext}{\textbf{\uppercase{Jan Küster}}} }}\\
		\Large{\textcolor{thirdcol}{\textsc{ Consultant/ Software Eng.}}}\\
	}&
	\parbox{0.25\textwidth}{
	\icontext{MapMarker}{12}{Bremen, Germany}\\
	\icontext{MobilePhone}{12}{+49 176 *** *** **}\\
	\icontext{Send}{12}{[email protected]}\\
	}&
	\parbox{0.3\textwidth}{
	\icontext{MousePointer}{12}{www.jankuester.com}\\
	\icontext{Github}{12}{github.com/jankapunkt}\\
	\icontext{Twitter}{12}{@Kuester\_Jan}\\
	}
\end{tabular*}

Example from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jankapunkt/latexcv/master/infographics/main.tex

Careful your .travis.yml has a TROJAN

I got a report from my antivirus software that the .travis.yml had HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Shell.Agent.p . It might be a false positive so please double check it, if correct please upload a clean version including your own Git folder for the safety of others.

Suggested fonts for the Infographics CV

Hi, I'm trying to use your template in Overleaf and found that some of the suggested fonts don't allow you to place small caps text correctly so it falls back to the default font and it looks awful.

I was looking for options on the LaTeX Font Catalogue website and found these sans-serif fonts that look great with this template.

\usepackage[defaultsans]{droidsans}
\usepackage{cmbright}
\usepackage[default]{raleway}
usepackage[default]{gillius}
\usepackage[sfdefault,condensed]{roboto} 
\usepackage[sfdefault]{AlegreyaSans}
\usepackage[familydefault]{Rosario}
\usepackage[sfdefault]{FiraSans}
\usepackage{libris}
\usepackage[sfdefault]{merriweather}
\usepackage{paratype}
\usepackage[sfdefault]{quattrocento}
\usepackage[default]{sourcesanspro}
\usepackage{venturis}

A

Markdown file for the templates

Could you perhaps attach a sample markdown file to the templates so that the template could also be used via pandoc, @jankapunkt ?

Multi-line CV event

Great work on these latex templates! I'm really enjoying working with them.
I do have a minor issue with the modern template though:

Currently, when your "title" of a \cvevent (second parameter) is quite long it wraps to the next line, but the header section doesn't adjust.
I could get around this by modifying the \vspace between the header and the body, but would prefer a more generic solution.

Is there any way to move the body down if the header has wrapped text?

Add Institution to timeline entries

In the timeline, under the command \cvevent param 4 and 5 is not implemented. Will it be possible to get a short description of the event or experience right underneath the event within the timeline.

Centering item labels with text

\cvevent uses \cdot to enlist items. This has the drawback that it is not positioned at the center of a capital letter. Maybe using the itemize environment would help (\cdot could be simulated by decreasing the size of the bullet). Alternatively, the height of the \cdot could be raised.

\hyperref links do not work with sidebar cv template

Hi Jan, really appreciate the work you do with the templates. I have been trying to add links to the sidebar using the \hyperref package but it seems like the links do not work when I put them into \icontext. My code block looks like:
\icontext{Icon}{12}{\href{link}{description}}{white}
I also included the hyperref package as the last package like it recommends. Do you have any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks a ton 😄

Move CI to GitHub actions

Good first issue

Suggestion for adapting your template to other paper sizes

Hi!

I would like to know how to adapt your Infographics CV template to other paper sizes beyond A4, specifically I would like to be able to format it to letterpaper size without the content being displayed on 2 pages where on the first one there is only the table of personal data.

I have reviewed the code of your template and it is in general terms very well documented and organized, I congratulate you for it. However my knowledge of Tikz is very basic and I guess that's where the difficulty lies.

Anyway I think that parameterising certain lengths expressed in centimetres within the template would facilitate this.

Features / ideas for more CV templates / next version

So I am about to create some more CV templates and I'd like you to share some ideas, wishes, requirements and so on.

The only restriction is, that we won't copy / mime existing templates. However, inspirational input from existing templates (written or not written in LaTeX) is greatly appreciated.

add a web link

I am making a CV with the "rows" template and I would like to add a link to the "Check out my opensource project at", but have been unsuccessful so far.
I modified the corresponding line as this

\textcolor{white}{Check out my open source projects at - } \textcolor{sectcol}{{\href{https://github.com/biswajitSM}{biswajitSM}}

But it doesn't work.
Does anybody know how to add a link?

Thanks

Docker image with prepared LaTeX installation and GitHub action which run it

Hi,
What about creating Docker image with installed LaTeX? You can publish it to GitHub Container Registry.

Then you can also prepare GitHub Action which can be run to generate CV using this Docker.

WDYT?

Classic : more lines for experience section

Hello M Jan Küster
Thank you for this wonderful job.

About the classic resume, how can I add more lines under an experience , it seems to be limited at 2 lines !!

Thanks a lot for your help

Sophal SUN

How to remove footer from sidebar template

Hi Jan, thanks for your wonderful work. I would like to know how I can remove the footer from the sidebar template. I commented on the code that generates the footer but then the white space at the end of the page is too big. How could I reduce that white space?

Manually install texlive for travis-ci in order to support infographics build using the latext texlive environment

Branch:
ci_setup

Log:
https://travis-ci.org/jankapunkt/latexcv/builds/256038205

Description:
On a local linux machine, the infographics test script exits with 0 and completes the tests. However, using travis completes all tests but the infographics test. It fails because travis (even on zeisty dist) still uses font spec to build font awesome, which requires either xetex or luatex. But this project should use only pdfLatex/pdfTex to build the files.

What needs to be done:
Get the travis config right, so that the infographics cv is built by using pdfLatex and not font spec. May be an issue with the packages loaded before the test - either there is something missing or a deprecated package is used.

White line in name-header

First of all, thanskbs for prvoding such a well documented template! It was really easy to customize thanks to your documentations.

Problem

My CV is based on your 'sidebar' template. I aligned the header box containing my name with the sidebar's top.

\begin{document}
\fcolorbox{white}{white}{\begin{minipage}[c][0.95\textheight][t]{0.69\linewidth}

%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%	TITLE HEADLINE
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\vspace{-15pt} % I changed this!


% use this for single words, e.g. CV or RESUME etc.
\colorbox{bgcol}{\makebox[\mpwidth][c]{\HUGE{\textcolor{white}{\uppercase{Johannes Jestram}} } }}

\vspace{6pt}
%============================================================================%
%
%	CV SECTIONS AND EVENTS (MAIN CONTENT)
%
%============================================================================%

%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%	STATUS
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\cvsection{Über mich}
...

However, this leads to a white bar showing in the middle of the header bar.

Expected Behavior

No white bar crossing my name.

What I tried

• Removed the image on the right
• Moved the headerbar a bit further down - the line remains in the exact same place, i.e., if I move the header bar down far enough, the white line no longer crosses it. Does it have something to to with the page layout maybe, e.g.,some padding boundary?

Do you have any ideas how to get rid of the white line?

Having problems with modifying tikz-pgf content

Hello jankapunkt!

CV looks amazing and very nice.

I am trying to use it for a sponsorship proposal but I'm having trouble with a couple of stuff.

• Trying to add a logo next to the title but it moves everything when I do
• Trying to add a number in the center of the pie chart
• Table is either too small or too big and out of bounds
• Trying to add text next to the fact bubble on the bottom of the page but it is being generated either too big or in a very unorganized way
• How do I change the main colors?

I am not asking for you to do the work for me but please if you know how to fix any of these issues because I've really been struggling with this for two days.

Any help is appreciated!

Thank you!
Sponsorship Proposal.zip

Feature: Multiple paragraphs for CVEvent

the \cvevent command can use multiple paragraphs, as already implemented in sidebar, see this PR: #53

However, the other templates still don't have this feature. PRs welcomed :-)

How to create extra page

it's my pleasure to use your CV classic template.
I have a question about latex programming.
when I replace my text on the template, the lines go under the page and some parts will be disappeared.
How can I go to another page and continue the previous part?

Thank you in advance for your guidance.
M. Javad

Feature suggestion: Environment Variables

I think it would be cool to add a type of b/w and a colour version for each available template. It would be very helpful for printing the resumes.

! LaTeX Error: File `xifthen.sty' not found.

Can't locate the above file.

installing TeX live package Enconuter error

run $ install-tl --profile=
meet error message. The profile references a non-existing collection

Cv

Question about Modern CV

How would you make a new type of CV event so so there would be three bullet points instead of one?
Right now I have \newcommand{\cveventt}[5]
{
\vspace{8pt}
\begin{tabular*}{0.6\linewidth}{ p{12cm} x{3cm}}
\textbf{#2} \textcolor{bgcol}{(#3)}&\textcolor{bgcol}{#1}\[4pt]
\end{tabular*}
\vspace{-12pt}
\textcolor{softcol}{\hrule}
\vspace{6pt}
\begin{tabular*}{1\textwidth}{l}
\larrow{sectcol} #4\[4.5pt]
\larrow{sectcol} #5\[4.5 pt]
\larrow{sectcol} #6\[6 pt]
\end{tabular*}
\vspace{-4pt}
}

but it is not working.

Thanks so much.

CV Timeline

Thank you for these CV templates! They are very creative.

I am interested in the infographics template. Am I correct in saying that the timeline does not appear to display all of the parameters that are input to a cvevent? When I rebuild your example TEX file, the PDF appears just like yours, but the comments in the timeline file seem to suggest there may be features missing from the rendered result.

Unfortunately, I'm far from being as accomplished as you with LaTeX, so any input would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Phil

Scientific Template

one of the ideas from the ideas thread #18 which is mainly described here: #18 (comment)

This is how I imagine.

    Header: name in larger font size, current position, title (e.g. PhD student, associate professor, etc.), address, institutional e-mail, phone number, optionally personal webpage, optionally a photo on the right as you did in the Modern template.
    Education: the structuring in the Classic or the Modern templates are perfect I think.
    Academic employment (optional; not useful for a freshly graduated person): title of the position, institution, time interval
    Publications (optional, as some institutions require the publications separated from the CV): your own name in bold face to indicate whether you are the first author. I would further structure it as
        books
        journal papers
        conference papers
        book chapters
        conference talks
        publications under review
    Awards (optional)
    Teaching (optional)
    Affiliations (optional): mainly relevant for experienced scientists and professors who are often members of organizations, committees, or are journal editors
    Research interest (optional)
    Technical skills: here I would add the option to insert the level of knowledge as it can be seen in the Sidebar theme (although I would change the stars to empty/filled circles as academia is more modest). Language skills can come here.

Additional comments:

    the default paper size could be A4 (tailored to me, as I am in Europe), with the possible extension to other sizes (not important for me)
    this template would specifically be crafted for use in academia
    as you could see, I wrote the word optional for some places. It could be implemented as environments, to keep the modular structure, suitable for PhD students to full professors. Similarly, one may not want to use all four kinds of publications listed in item 4, so macros could help here as well.
    the growing number of publications makes it impractical to embed them directly. I would use the natbib, or better, the biblatex package to fetch the publications from (an) external bib file(s). Biblatex can include multiple bibliographies within a single document, so that would fit well to the different categories (journal papers, copnference papers, ...).
    as opposed to business CVs, academic CVs can be longer due to the accumulating papers, memberships, etc.
    just as you did for the education section, the publication should also be ordered latest to oldest. I can help you in setting it in the bibliography, if you want.

[infographic] the first legend is higher than the rest

Hi!

Great work, I love the infographic template.

I just noticed that in the timeline part of the CV, the first item in the legend (Experience) is just a little bit above the two others (Events and Education).

I tried to play with it and fix it but couldn't make it work. Seems like an issue with the enclosing mbox.

I would gladly help you fix it, but I will require some guidance since I am relatively new to Latex.

Thanks

Please add chinese language support

Use fonts instead of icons

https://coderwall.com/p/r67dyq/using-font-awesome-with-xe-latex