How to use
- Enter your name and, if you want them on the resume, your title, email, phone, location and a website or LinkedIn link.
- Press Add a job for each role: title, company, dates and a line for each thing you did. Press Add a school the same way for your education.
- List your skills, separated by commas or one per line.
- Add a short summary if you want one, pick a page size, and press Download PDF.
Examples
A job titled "Senior Designer" at "Acme Studio", 2022 to Present, with two bullet points
→ A heading with the role and dates (2022 – Present), the company below it, and the two lines as bullet pointsJobs and schools with nothing filled in are left off the PDF, the way a blank row on paper would be.
Skills typed as Figma, Sketch on one line and Miro on the next
→ Figma · Sketch · Miro, in one line under the Skills headingCommas and new lines both separate skills.
A summary, a job, a school and skills, page size Letter
→ Headings SUMMARY, EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION and SKILLS, in that order, on a 612 × 792 point pageLetter is 8.5 × 11 inches. A4 pages are 595 × 842 points.
Ten jobs, each with three lines of bullet points
→ A two (or more) page PDFA new page starts automatically once a section would run past the bottom margin; nothing is cut off.
A skill list typed in Korean
→ A warning that those characters cannot be shown in the PDFThey would appear as ? in the PDF, so the page lists them before you download.
How it works
The PDF is drawn directly, one line of text at a time, with @cantoo/pdf-lib (a maintained fork of pdf-lib), using Helvetica, one of the PDF format’s own built-in fonts, so no font file has to be downloaded. The built-in font covers the Latin letters and the windows-1252 set, so a name, job or skill in Korean, Chinese or Cyrillic cannot be drawn and would come out as ?; the page finds such characters before you download and lists them.
How the page is laid out
| Part | What you get |
|---|---|
| Top | Your name large, then the title, then email, phone, location and website on one line, separated by dots, and a rule under it |
| Summary | One paragraph, if you wrote one |
| Experience | Each job: role in bold with the dates on the right, the company and location below, then bullet points |
| Education | Each school: name in bold with the dates on the right, the degree below |
| Skills | All skills on one line, separated by dots, wrapping onto the next line if needed |
Section headings are written in capitals. An entry left entirely blank is skipped rather than shown as an empty block.
How the pages break
As entries are added, the page tracks how much room is left and starts a new page once a heading or an entry would run past the bottom margin, so a long resume spills onto a second or third page instead of being cut off or squeezed.
What the page does not do
It does not read a job posting, rank your wording or fit the content to one page. One column of plain text is easy for other programs to read, but how an employer’s system treats a resume is outside what this page can promise.
The layout, the section order, the page sizes, the date ranges and the character check are covered by tests, including reading the finished PDF’s text back.
Sources
Frequently asked questions
- Can I save my resume and come back to edit it later?
- Not yet: this page does not store anything, and closing the tab loses what you typed. Keep your own copy of what you entered if you plan to make an updated version later.
- Which characters can the PDF show?
- The Latin letters up to code 255, such as é, ñ and ü, plus the extra characters of the windows-1252 set: the euro sign, en and em dashes, curly quotes, the bullet and a few more. Korean, Chinese, Cyrillic and emoji cannot be drawn and appear as ?, and the page lists them before you download.
- Why does the PDF use a plain font?
- It uses Helvetica, a font every PDF viewer already has, so the file needs no font embedded and no font is downloaded. The price is the limited character set above.
- In what order do the sections appear?
- Your name and the contact line come first, then Summary, Experience, Education and Skills. A section with nothing in it is left out, and so is a job or a school with no role, company, school or degree.
- What are the page size and the margins?
- A4 (595 × 842 points) or US Letter (612 × 792 points), with a margin of 48 points, two thirds of an inch, on every side.
- Can I use more than one page?
- Yes, and you do not have to choose: the page adds a new one automatically once your experience, education or skills run past the bottom of the current page, so nothing is cut off or shrunk to fit.
- Does it check my resume for mistakes or suggest wording?
- No. It lays out exactly what you type, correctly spaced and ordered; it does not check spelling, suggest phrasing, or judge the content.
- Is my resume uploaded anywhere?
- No. The PDF is built in your browser, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
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Version history
- 1.0.1 — Dashes, curly quotes, the euro sign and the bullet no longer trigger the unsupported-character warning, since the PDF can draw them. Adds how the page is laid out, the section order, page sizes and margins, and which characters the PDF can show.
- 1.0.0 — First release.