futurice / cv-generator

Tool to generate single slide CVs

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Is pptx output format too hard to achieve? #5

Open albacoretuna opened 7 years ago

albacoretuna commented 7 years ago

From the reddit discussion:

That's really cool - I spend far too much time tweaking what is supposed to be our "standard" half-slide CV because people fuck around with the layout for no good reason.

Shame it can't output as a PowerPoint slide! But I guess that would be really hard. You might find https://python-pptx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ useful.

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daniellandau commented 7 years ago

PowerPoint output was considered, but deemed not worth the trouble. I asked a sales person and they said that combining slides from different PowerPoint files is such a hassle anyways that the normal course of action is to take screenshots and copy those over to different slide decks. That's why the tool generates PNG (my initial thought had been that PDF is all that's needed).

That library seems to be for generating pptx by hand, while the current functionality is autoconverting HTML+CSS.