How do you keep PDF and web resume in sync?

[Zackhardtoname]

Hi Alec. I was a student of yours. I am interested in adopting your code for resume generation, but I am wondering how you keep your JSON file and PDF/word/LaTeX resume file in sync or have to modify content in two places manually? Thanks!

[minchingtonak]

Hi Zack, right now i don't have a clean way to keep each copy in sync, so when I update my resume I have to update it in both places. I've thought about keeping the JSON file as the central copy and writing something to parse the JSON into LaTeX form and render that but I haven't gotten around to it.

[Zackhardtoname]

@jbseg I see some potential of collaboration.

[jbseg]

ya to do this completely automatically you can create some kind of API that serves the json data, and then have the website read from that api and the ability to generate a pdf also from querying that API as well.

However, people can just copy and paste updates to their resume from a website to a pdf which is pretty quick. Also, sometimes you want different phrasing for each platform. The task just doesn't seem to generalizable I think.

[minchingtonak]

Certainly potential for some automation here but like @jbseg said there are a lot of factors that would make generalizing it somewhat challenging. Another issue would be that the json version of my resume has much more than a single page of content on it so there'd need to be some way of figuring out what content to cut when rendering only a single page.