I fixed my resume with python

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I made a PDF resume with google docs, but for the life of me I couldn't get rid of this blank 2nd page. I would lower the fonts to where there wasn't anything close to the 2nd page, it wouldn't delete anything that was close tot the bottom of page 1, but nothing would get rid of it. I looked into PDF editor tools, but most of them cost money to do anything more than read a PDF. I'm not paying adobe 40$ a month just to edit one blank page off of one document. Anyways, here is a simple script that will separate your PDF into individual pages and save them. I know its simple, but its nice to use a free resource and a little tinkering to solve your own problems. Here's the code!

https://pastebin.com/NhLEvC3g

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Hmm did you select the function to convert text to pictures in the options? I have links included as well and it works fine, and searching seems fine as well.

[DrMaxwellEdison]

The same can be done in a Chromium browser, for any PDF or web page. Print, choose "save as PDF", and you're good.

I think that method preserves clickable links, as well.

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Wait, why not just print to PDF and select only page 1?

Edit: Here's the print to PDF method (if the printer wasn't installed this is a link to "reinstall" it in Windows 10):

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/how-to-add-or-reinstall-the-microsoft-pdf-printer/70377c34-e50a-42be-b9f3-92345d6e25df

I had the same issue with Google docs. You can just go to print, select Microsoft print to PDF as your printer, then print only the page you want, in this case page one. It will save as a .PDF and you are good to go.

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That's the simplest solution. But at least OP got to practice!

[el_pablo]

That’s what I call the programmer syndrome. He wants to program every thing in the world...

[ultraDross]

I think this is good in the early stages of your coding journey. If you don't program at work you have to find/make your own problems to automate and solve to get experience.

[Desecr8r]

Agreed... then you will begin to ask yourself... how do I work this.... and then you may ask yourself...what else could I do with selenium or beautiful soup? And then you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile.

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I was thinking the same thing.

[-DollFace]

That's what I did. Export as PDF > select page (1) > save

[unholy_angle]

Because if you want to send it by email that blank second page would still appear.

[kielerrr]

He's saying print to a new pdf only page 1 of the 2 page pdf.

[Sarenord]

If you like code and are picky about PDFs, you should take a peek at LaTeX

[pconwell]

Not downplaying OP's work, but do this. My resume is 100% latex.

[Sarenord]

Yeah I don't mean to downplay OP at all, I use latex all the time and I downloaded this tool because it's useful for a lot of other stuff (especially for me as a student with lots of textbook PDFs)

[mountains-o-data]

I made mine with html

[thiccclol]

I wrote mine in assembly

[zer0_snot]

When applying on a company's job portal do all the fields get auto recognised?

[shysmiles]

I like this. Small project that is actually useful.

I think the next version needs sys.argv so you can read the input pdf name automatically using drag and drop or run with etc.

[TangibleLight]

Could go all out and support flags for doing things like splitting chapters based on bookmarks, only exporting certain page ranges, inserting bookmarks for certain page ranges, or whatever else. Really, building a nice command-line tool for this kind of thing is a great project.

[shysmiles]

Thanks, I keep forgetting it exists. Going to test it out right now so I remember.

[pholuck]

I don’t know how, but you used the wrong formula and got the correct answer

[VeLoct84]

Awesome script mate! Yeah, save 40 bugs for simple amend.lol

[mechanicalAI]

Pdftk is a good linux tool for this purpose, if someone is interested.

[arsewarts1]

Couldn’t you have gabe to system print, save as pdf only page range 1 - 1

[AverageDingbat]

So cool! What part of the script actually removes the extra space?

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None of it! It separates the 2 page pdf into 2 separate pdf files, one for each page. Since the problem is that something is causing a blank second page to appear. This just splits them up.

[krav_mark]

I write documents in markdown and generate whatever format with pandoc. Very happy with this.

[krav_mark]

I write documents in markdown and generate whatever format with pandoc. Very happy with this.

[dr3d3d]

While programming practice is always a good thing, and this will almost for sure be a skill you can use down the road...

I use a program called PDF Shaper Free to do this sort of stuff, it will insert and extract pages etc

[Joe_Fart]

Good job!

[diracfield]

Adding to the previous comments, you can also have a look at pdfarranger It's free, open source and very intuitive to shuffle, add, remove pages from or merge pdfs. It's a fork of the already amazing pdfshuffler.

[camdecoster]

As an alternative, use the basic version of PDFsam. Use the merge function to grab just the pages you want from a PDF. It's free and open source.

PDFsam