[Tex/LaTex] Adding extra documents in moderncv

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I would like to add extra documents (like reference letters and certificates) to the moderncv in a way that everything is in the same pdf. I can´t include them as text because they will actually be scanned copies.

Is there any way to add it so every scan occupies an extra page in the same pdf or has the template been created to just have the CV and cover letter?

Best Answer

The moderncv document class can handle this just like any other document class. Easiest would be to include

\usepackage{pdfpages}% http://ctan.org/pkg/pdfpages

in your preamble and insert

\includepdf{<file>}

wherever you want to include a PDF <file>. <file> can be multi-page (or not) and you can specify the pages to include. See the pdfpages documentation for options or choices.

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[Tex/LaTex] moderncv – filesize of pdf too big

There is no package makemypdfsmaller.sty which reduces the PDF file size without removing information. However, there are a few things you can do:

Reduce number of images

Do you really need to include eighteen images? Maybe sixteen or twelve is enough.

Reduce image size

You can use imagemagick (or gimp or …) to reduce the image size. You have to experiment which values are acceptable.

convert -geometry 75% input.png output.png

Reduce amount of colours

Especially when the image contains text on white background or just a few colours, like certificates often do, you can significantly reduce the image size. Try different values, e.g. 4, 8, 16

convert -colors 16 input.png output.png

Run optipng on the file

The program optipng can shrink the file about one to four percent more after you have reduced the amount of colours. Not much, but it's lossless. The slowest setting with the highest compression is -o7.

optipng -o7 input.png

Increase PDF compression

Set \pdfcompresslevel9. This also does not help much, but maybe it helps to squeeze it just enough to fit into a file size limit.

Reducing the final PDF

When you already created the PDF or you don't have access to the images any more, you can use ghostscript to reduce the resolution of the final PDF. Use for instance the setting -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook. Here is an example.

gs \
  -sOutputFile=output_file.pdf    \
  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite               \
  -dNOPAUSE                       \
  -dBATCH                         \
  -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook            \
  input_file.pdf

/ebook sets the resolution to 150 DPI. Other settings are /screen (75 DPI) or /print (300 DPI).

[Tex/LaTex] How to separate the CV and cover letter in moderncv

You can have a separate letter file. A template is provided in the modercv github

letter.tex

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage{kantlipsum}   %% only for demo
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage{graphicx}


\pagestyle{empty}

\usepackage[scale=0.775]{geometry}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\addtolength{\parskip}{6pt}

\def\firstname{John}
\def\familyname{Doe}
\def\FileAuthor{\firstname \familyname}
\def\FileTitle{\firstname \familyname's cover letter}
\def\FileSubject{Cover letter}
\def\FileKeyWords{\firstname \familyname, Cover letter}

\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{pcr}

\usepackage{url}
\urlstyle{tt}
\ifpdf
  \usepackage[pdftex,pdfborder=0,breaklinks,baseurl=http://,pdfpagemode=None,pdfstartview=XYZ,pdfstartpage=1]{hyperref}
  \hypersetup{
    pdfauthor   = \FileAuthor,%
    pdftitle    = \FileTitle,%
    pdfsubject  = \FileSubject,%
    pdfkeywords = \FileKeyWords,%
    pdfcreator  = \LaTeX,%
    pdfproducer = \LaTeX}
\else
  \usepackage[dvips]{hyperref}
\fi


\begin{document}
\sffamily   % for use with a résumé using sans serif fonts;
%\rmfamily  % for use with a résumé using serif fonts;
\hfill%
\begin{minipage}[t]{.6\textwidth}
\raggedleft%
{\bfseries John Doe}\\[.35ex]
\small\itshape%
street and number\\
postcode city\\[.35ex]
\Telefon~phone number\\
\Letter~\href{mailto:jdoe@gmail.com}{jdoe@gmail.com}
\end{minipage}\\[1em]
%
\begin{minipage}[t]{.4\textwidth}
\raggedright%
{\bfseries Company XYZ}\\[.35ex]
\small\itshape%
street and number\\
postcode city
\end{minipage}
\hfill % US style
%\\[1em] % UK style
\begin{minipage}[t]{.4\textwidth}
\raggedleft % US style
\today
%April 6, 2006 % US informal style
%05/04/2006 % UK formal style
\end{minipage}\\[2em]
\raggedright
Dear Sir or Madam:\\[1.5em]
%
\kant[1-3]

%Yours sincerely,\\[2em] % if the opening is "Dear Mr(s) Doe,"
Yours faithfully,\\[2em] % if the opening is "Dear Sir or Madam,"
%
%\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{signature_blue}\\
{\bfseries John Doe}\\
%
\vfill%
{\slshape Enclosure}
{\slshape Attachment: curriculum vit\ae{}}
\end{document}

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And CV.tex

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}

% moderncv themes
\moderncvtheme[blue]{casual}                 % optional argument are 'blue' (default), 'orange', 'red', 'green', 'grey' and 'roman' (for roman fonts, instead of sans serif fonts)
%\moderncvtheme[green]{classic}                % idem

% character encoding
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}                   % replace by the encoding you are using

% adjust the page margins
\usepackage[scale=0.8]{geometry}
%\setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{3cm}                     % if you want to change the width of the column with the dates
%\AtBeginDocument{\setlength{\maketitlenamewidth}{6cm}}  % only for the classic theme, if you want to change the width of your name placeholder (to leave more space for your address details
%\AtBeginDocument{\recomputelengths}                     % required when changes are made to page layout lengths

% personal data
\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}
\title{Resumé title (optional)}               % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\address{street and number}{postcode city}    % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\mobile{mobile (optional)}                    % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\phone{phone (optional)}                      % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\fax{fax (optional)}                          % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\email{email (optional)}                      % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\homepage{homepage (optional)}                % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\extrainfo{additional information (optional)} % optional, remove the line if not wanted
\photo[64pt]{picture}                         % '64pt' is the height the picture must be resized to and 'picture' is the name of the picture file; optional, remove the line if not wanted
\quote{Some quote (optional)}                 % optional, remove the line if not wanted

% to show numerical labels in the bibliography; only useful if you make citations in your resume
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\bibliographyitemlabel}{\@biblabel{\arabic{enumiv}}}
\makeatother

% bibliography with mutiple entries
%\usepackage{multibib}
%\newcites{book,misc}{{Books},{Others}}

%\nopagenumbers{}                             % uncomment to suppress automatic page numbering for CVs longer than one page
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%            content
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section{Education}
\cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{\textit{Grade}}{Description}  % arguments 3 to 6 can be left empty
\cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{\textit{Grade}}{Description}

\section{Master thesis}
\cvline{title}{\emph{Title}}
\cvline{supervisors}{Supervisors}
\cvline{description}{\small Short thesis abstract}

\section{Experience}
\subsection{Vocational}
\cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description no longer than 1--2 lines.\newline{}%
Detailed achievements:%
\begin{itemize}%
\item Achievement 1;
\item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
  \begin{itemize}%
  \item Sub-achievement (a);
  \item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
    \begin{itemize}
    \item Sub-sub-achievement i;
    \item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
    \item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
    \end{itemize}
  \item Sub-achievement (c);
  \end{itemize}
\item Achievement 3.
\end{itemize}}
\cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description line 1\newline{}Description line 2}
\subsection{Miscellaneous}
\cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{Description}

\section{Languages}
\cvlanguage{Language 1}{Skill level}{Comment}
\cvlanguage{Language 2}{Skill level}{Comment}
\cvlanguage{Language 3}{Skill level}{Comment}

\section{Computer skills}
\cvcomputer{category 1}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 4}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
\cvcomputer{category 2}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 5}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}
\cvcomputer{category 3}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}{category 6}{XXX, YYY, ZZZ}

\section{Interests}
\cvline{hobby 1}{\small Description}
\cvline{hobby 2}{\small Description}
\cvline{hobby 3}{\small Description}

\section{Extra 1}
\cvlistitem{Item 1}
\cvlistitem{Item 2}
\cvlistitem[+]{Item 3}            % optional other symbol

\renewcommand{\listitemsymbol}{-} % change the symbol for lists

\section{Extra 2}
\cvlistdoubleitem{Item 1}{Item 4}
\cvlistdoubleitem{Item 2}{Item 5 \cite{book1}}
\cvlistdoubleitem{Item 3}{}

% Publications from a BibTeX file without multibib\renewcommand*{\bibliographyitemlabel}{\@biblabel{\arabic{enumiv}}}% for BibTeX numerical labels
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{publications}       % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file

% Publications from a BibTeX file using the multibib package
%\section{Publications}
%\nocitebook{book1,book2}
%\bibliographystylebook{plain}
%\bibliographybook{publications}   % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file
%\nocitemisc{misc1,misc2,misc3}
%\bibliographystylemisc{plain}
%\bibliographymisc{publications}   % 'publications' is the name of a BibTeX file

\end{document}

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