resume-cli: PDF output currently broken

Currently, for me, all PDF outputs contain just this text:

<!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
      <style type="text/css">
        html, body, iframe { margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 100%; }
        iframe { display: block; width: 100%; border: none; }
      </style>
    <title>Application Error</title>
    </head>
    <body>
      <iframe src="//s3.amazonaws.com/heroku_pages/error.html">
        <p>Application Error</p>
      </iframe>
    </body>
    </html

This is regardless of the theme I use, and for a JSON document that hasn’t changed for days, and was working just a couple of hours ago.

I’m guessing whatever online service jsonresume-cli uses in the background for PDF conversion is currently broken, but I’m not sure where else to report it.

Thanks.

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Comments: 49 (18 by maintainers)

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I run https://www.api2pdf.com and I would be happy to give you guys free credit so that you can re-enable your pdf export feature. Just let me know.

apexdodge on Jun 30, 2018

For those looking for a workaround, open your CV in google chrome and press Ctrl + P for “print”, and then set “Save as PDF” as the destination. Works great!

SamJoan on Apr 6, 2015

Or maybe give another free API a try? http://www.html2pdfrocket.com/ for example.

IwishIcanFLighT on Apr 25, 2016

If anyone is curious I have made a little build process with “npm scripts”. It first builds as html file with resume-cli, then a pdf with wkhtmltopdf, and finally a png with imagemagick (for the README.md file). I’m on OSX and the install of imagemagick and wkhtmltopdf is very simple… https://github.com/howardroark/resume

I really like wkhtmltopdf because it preserves links and offers a nice looking PDF assuming the template has a good responsive layout.

In theory a binary for each of those two tools could be downloaded to match the architecture and used as an npm module.

howardroark on Apr 13, 2016

In the meantime, you can mess with this script + node module I found that may help you.

First output to your resume.json to HTML with resume-cli
npm install html-pdf
Then create a file called html2pdf.js, and have this as it’s contents (see below)
Use it like this: node html2pdf.js <path-and-filename-of-prev-generated-html-output-in-step-one> myresume.pdf
Fiddle with the options object to get the outputted PDF to look nice. YMMV.

var fs = require('fs');
var pdf = require('html-pdf');

var args = process.argv;
var htmlfile = args[2];
var pdffile = args[3];

if(htmlfile === undefined || pdffile === undefined) {
    console.error('You must supply a html filename, and then a PDF filename.');
    process.exit();
}

var html = fs.readFileSync(htmlfile, 'utf8')
var options = { filename: pdffile, format: 'Letter' };

pdf.create(html, options).toFile(function(err, res) {
  if (err) return console.log(err);
  console.log(res); // { filename: '/tmp/html-pdf-8ymPV.pdf' }
});

program247365 on Apr 15, 2015

@thomasdavis you mention pdfcrowd so what about adding the ability to provide a custom API token using the cli? Looking at pdfcrowd, they offer a trial with 100 tokens so each of us can just register and get those 100 conversions for ourselves.

igorkulman on Jul 5, 2016

Aw man, I was creating my first json-resume for my girlfriend, and now I can’t export to pdf and show her

amingilani on May 15, 2016

@howardroark I tried to run wkhtmltopdf, but I got a bad looking pdf: resume.pdf

Any hint on how to produce a correct output? Note that I got similar bad-looking output if I open the html file in a browser and then print it. The html itself is rendered well in firefox and chrome.

Ezibenroc on Apr 23, 2016

Would it make sense to do PDF conversion locally instead of using a paid service?

elijahchancey on Apr 6, 2015

I’m having an issue with pdf export

The command resume export resume.pdf seems to work correctly, and even ‘creates’ a pdf file. When I try to open it, I get the following Documen Viewer error

Unable to open document

File type HTML document (text/html) is not supported

Nothing else on console or anything 😕

sebastialonso on Mar 20, 2015