Hari's Corner

6 comment(s)

1. Excellent work, hari! It looks extremely detailed and well thought out. Might I recommend a PDF output as well?
   I'm stuffed with activities this week, but will checkout from the repo this weekend and give you more detailed feedback.
   
   Comment by Dion Moult (visitor) on 6 Dec 2011 @ 19:45 IST #
2. Hi Dion, I thought of PDF, but it is a non-text format and it won't be possible to use a templating system for output. Besides since I'm planning an OpenOffice FODT export filter as well, it will be trivial simply to use the OO.org export filter to get a PDF file.
   Thanks for the comments. Hopefully people will find this useful.
   
   Comment by Hari (blog owner) on 6 Dec 2011 @ 21:04 IST #
3. Tried it out today (sorry for the delay!) and it was very good and easy to use but unfortunately I can't export! It says:
   dion@epicbox /home/drive/hari/biacv $ ./biacv
   kfilemodule(26194) KSambaSharePrivate::findSmbConf: KSambaShare: Could not find smb.conf!
   Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/drive/hari/biacv/biacv_mainwindow.py", line 55, in on_file_export
   exp.set_template_directory (unicode (templatedir.toUtf8(), "utf-8")
   File "/home/drive/hari/biacv/biacv_exporter.py", line 217, in set_template_directory
   lst_file_meta = (codecs.open (file_meta, 'r', "utf-8".read ()).splitlines ()
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/codecs.py", line 881, in open
   file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
   IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/home/drive/hari/biacv/META-INFO'
   
   Comment by Dion Moult (visitor) on 16 Dec 2011 @ 11:34 IST #
4. Hi, Dion,
   I think you haven't chosen the export directory properly in the "Export Template" path.
   Did you get the dialog that asked for the export template path when you chose to export the file?
   You should choose either templates/default_fodt or templates/default_xhtml directory when prompted for the export template directory. Then you choose the export file.
   
   Comment by Hari (blog owner) on 16 Dec 2011 @ 11:51 IST #
5. Sorry for the late reply again
   Aha, I didn't realise I had to choose templates/defualt_*, instead I just picked whatever directory I wanted, thinking that it should know what to do. Did I miss this instruction somewhere?
   Anyways, I tried exporting to fodt and it worked very well, unfortunately it doesn't handle missing fields very well and ends up adding extra commas or semicolons in the exported file. Perhaps an improvement for a future update?
   What I would _really_ like to see is an export to LaTeX option using one of the more popular LaTeX CV packages out there (I've seen a few lurking around)
   
   Comment by Dion Moult (visitor) on 28 Dec 2011 @ 19:04 IST #
6. Dion, yes, that wasn't quite obvious. I need to write a documentation guide for this.
   Yes, it doesn't handle missing fields well but that's because of the limitations of the templating system itself. As it is, it would be very hard to simply handle this in code because that would introduce too many formatting commands into the code. The best solution to remove fields, if you don't want is to remove it from the actual template and save as a new template or simply edit the final output to remove the unwanted formatting. Trying to handle the formatting or lack of it in the code will make the templating system too complex and not generic enough.
   
   Comment by Hari (blog owner) on 28 Dec 2011 @ 19:39 IST #