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📝 A website for automatically generating elegant LaTeX resumes.
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Export to Word (.docx) via Pandoc #146

Open oxr463 opened 4 years ago

oxr463 commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Recruiters are always asking for a Word (.docx) copy, but I do not use Microsoft Word.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like an option to download/export as Word (.docx).

Describe alternatives you've considered

I typically export the LaTeX version and then convert to Word (.docx) via pandoc.

Additional context

N/A

saadq commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the request @oxr463, this is something I've been planning on looking into for v3. I haven't done any testing yet on how the output looks, in your experience do you find that it's mostly fine? And is there any difference/preference between going from LaTeX -> Word vs PDF -> Word?

oxr463 commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the request @oxr463, this is something I've been planning on looking into for v3. I haven't done any testing yet on how the output looks, in your experience do you find that it's mostly fine? And is there any difference/preference between going from LaTeX -> Word vs PDF -> Word?

Two things:

  1. These Word (.docx) files are going into some proprietary software to be scanned; I don't even care what it looks like to be honest. Usually what happens is, the recruiter reaches out to me based on my PDF resume that I have shared, and asks for a Word (.docx) so that they can process it in their system.

  2. I've actually never tried going from PDF straight to Word (.docx). A few times, I have actually used one of those cheesy online converters, (but not the ones that require an email address); especially when I am away from one of my own machines, (like on a work computer or something).

saadq commented 4 years ago
  1. These Word (.docx) files are going into some proprietary software to be scanned; I don't even care what it looks like to be honest. Usually what happens is, the recruiter reaches out to me based on my PDF resume that I have shared, and asks for a Word (.docx) so that they can process it in their system.

So my main concern was that a lot of people have emailed me requesting for .doc support because a lot of users of Resumake aren't technical and just want to be able to download a .doc that they can open in Word and customize the resume further since Resumake itself doesn't really provide much customization and they won't really be familiar with LaTeX. I'll be checking out pandoc though and seeing what the situation is like.

oxr463 commented 4 years ago

Oh.. that is a good point. I had not considered that.