Question:
resume.
I would like to write a resume in latex, convert it to ps, then
distribute it to people as a pdf/acrobat document.
I research this path a few weeks ago and discovered the following:
1) It is very hard to format a intense document like a resume using LaTeX.
2) There are like a billion steps to get a pdf document.
3) The fonts in my PDF document looked like crap. Many jagged edges,
etc...
4) I read an Adobe FAQ on the font problem. I would have rather
rewrote X then follow the instructions on getting fonts set up right.
I'm ready to hop over to my MS Windows machine and buy Adobes PDR
Writer. Should I? Am I doing the process wrong? Has anyone had any
luck with this scenario?
Answer:
You can try resumemac.tex and sample_resume.tex from a CTAN mirror.
IIRC, its under /pub/CTAN/macros/plain/contrib at ftp.sunsite.utk.edu
That depends. If you're using teTeX all you have to change is the
pdftex.cfg file to match your preferences. After that, all you have to
do is type `pdftex ' for TeX source and `pdflatex '
for LaTeX source.
If teTeX is installed correctly and you use pdftex or pdflatex you
shouldn't have this problem---this TeX distribution has type1 versions
of quite a few fonts (including, of course CM) that look just fine in
AcrobatReader.
I've done my resume two or three times using TeX/pdftex and it's worked
fine.
-There are several LaTeX macro packages for doing stuff like this. One is
currvita, which you should be able to find on CTAN (it is more for a CV
than a resume, but should work)
You can use pdflatex to go direct from TeX to PDF.
If pdftex and pdflatex are correctly set up they should be fine. But if
you did something like
latex foo.tex
dvips foo
dvips foo
ps2pdf foo
you would certainly end up with crappy fonts. Using pdflatex is one
option (the one I prefer), but there are also things that you could tell
to dvips that would make it produce postscript better suited for
conversion to PDF.
See previous answers. My CV, using currvita, is at
http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/jgvita.pdf
it is not a particularly well designed one. But at least you'll see that
the fonts come out ok.
