Both roads end in a PDF
Once your resume looks right in youcanfind.me/resume, there are two ways to get a file out of it:
- One-click download — we generate the PDF directly.
- Browser print — open the print dialog and choose "Save as PDF".
Both produce a standard PDF, and nobody receiving it can tell which one you used.
What the one-click download requires
One-click download works for English content in the single-column layout — the one called "Resume Clean". When both conditions hold, a download button appears below the preview. When they don't, it isn't there.
The constraint comes from fonts. Generating a PDF directly means embedding the typeface in the file, and CJK font files are two orders of magnitude larger than Latin ones. Embedding them would make the file heavy and the generation slow. We didn't want to trade those away for feature completeness, so non-Latin resumes take the print route instead.
Printing has no such limit
Any layout, any language. Click the print icon below the preview, or press Command + P (Ctrl + P on Windows), then set the destination to "Save as PDF".
What comes out is not a screenshot of the page. There's a separate print layout underneath: the editor chrome, buttons, and navigation are gone, and only the resume itself reaches the paper. Content reflows to the page width rather than shrinking to fit. A single job entry is kept off a page break where the page allows. Two-column layouts straighten into one column, because a narrow sidebar reads badly on A4.
Print dialog settings
- Leave margins on "Default". Choosing "None" or "Custom" overrides the page's own margin handling.
- Leave "Background graphics" unchecked. The print layout already drops large blocks of color and keeps only small accents — section headings and institution logos.
- On Chrome and Edge, the page suppresses headers and footers, so no URL or date is printed. Safari and Firefox need you to turn those off in the dialog yourself.
Printing is carried out by the browser, and print engines differ between browsers and operating systems, so page breaks may not land exactly where you saw them elsewhere. Flip through the exported file once before you send it — it's worth the thirty seconds.
Which one to use
English resume in the single-column layout: use the one-click download and skip two steps.
Everything else: print. Non-Latin content, two-column layouts, timeline layouts — same result, a properly typeset PDF.
What changes between screen and paper
Some things shift deliberately:
| On screen | On paper |
|---|---|
| Two columns side by side | Straightened into one |
| Skill tags on tinted pills | Tint dropped, thin outline instead |
| Projects in a card grid | A list with small thumbnails |
| Endless scroll | Paginated to A4, entries kept whole where the page allows |
All of these are deliberate, not rendering bugs.