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I make my CV with Latex and a french sty file for years now, nothing fancy to be honest.

Looking for some inspiration, I found some astonishing examples of CV online, and I've seen on the other threads right here showing the beauty of Latex; and I would like to see what can be done with the CV class. What I see in this thread is not really convincing (I have the same output).

Have you some great examples—eccentric or classic ones?

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    Combined with some vector-graphics editor (e.g. Illustrator), absolutely – don't make your far more difficult than it needs to be by stubbornly sticking to a pure-TeX solution. One of TeX's strengths is its versatility and robustness. Note that the cv class isn't the end-all, be-all of CV/résumé LaTeX classes. I made mine starting from the article class. – Sean Allred Mar 09 '15 at 13:25
  • @SeanAllred well, TiKZ could serve you as well ;-) And I suspect that in the "astonishing examples" link, the "John Doe" one is made with LaTeX. – Astrinus Mar 09 '15 at 13:38
  • @Astrinus don't make your far more difficult than it needs to be :) All things are possible, but not all things are logical. Each of them could be made with TeX/TikZ and I can explain how they could be put together, but this doesn't mean I would want to do it :) – Sean Allred Mar 09 '15 at 13:42
  • @SeanAllred That's the point: is it logical or ideological to insist on doing a Latex resume? It's a bit provocative question, but from an etymological point of view, provocare is about looking for answers ;) – KO the typo Mar 09 '15 at 13:50
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    @KOthetypo provocare is about eliciting responses, not just answers ;) I wouldn't do my résumé in anything else, but I would not hesitate to use external tools to create the resources needed in the LaTeX. Images, designs, etc. For some tasks, I would even create 'pre-documents' (in the same vein as After Effects precomps) to make life easier. Don't try to do everything all at once in one place. – Sean Allred Mar 09 '15 at 13:53
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    The main thrust of the question here: Have you some great examples—eccentric or classic ones? is essentially the same as the question at LaTeX template for resume/curriculum vitae. It boils down to "Show me your beautiful resume/CV in LaTeX". If you feel the answers there are not satisfactory, you could consider adding a bounty to that question to attract a new wave of good answers. – Paul Gessler Mar 09 '15 at 14:46
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    Consider the audience, too. For many fields, those CVs may be fun or interesting or challenging (or whatever) to create, but would be a terrible idea to use in practice. Even for the world of graphic design (about which I claim no expertise/experience), I wonder if many of those examples obfuscate the information they are trying to present.... Of course, it may be fun for some people to torture TeX into producing something like this. – jon Mar 09 '15 at 15:24
  • I also agree with @SeanAllred regarding more traditional CVs: just use a basic class. It allows for much more flexibility. – jon Mar 09 '15 at 15:26
  • Anything is possible, but I think this question isn't focussed enough to really work in a Q&A site so I voted to close as too broad. – David Carlisle Mar 09 '15 at 19:25
  • "Questions asking for a list of alternatives with no definitive answer"(big-list tag definition). I think it's a relevant question, thereby. – KO the typo Mar 09 '15 at 19:53
  • If it's closed, I think it should be duped to the other resume/CV question. I've now voted as such. – Paul Gessler Mar 09 '15 at 20:38
  • possible duplicate of LaTeX template for resume/curriculum vitae – Paul Gessler Mar 09 '15 at 20:38
  • A friend of mine built a CV similar, I made some updated to work in French an I have add a cover letter. The source code is here . – David Beauchemin Jun 02 '17 at 23:09

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