Cover letter

Generate custom cover letters in PDF format.

Installation

Install Latex on your system. For Ubuntu, this is

sudo apt install texlive-latex-extra
sudo apt install latexmk
sudo apt install texlive-fonts-extra

and generate your .pdf file with pdflatex my-cover-letter.tex

Create a virtual environment and install the requirements

virtualenv -p python3.8 .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

or use

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a cover letter by running python gen_cover_letter.py

Fill in the requested information and press 'Enter' after each prompt. Here is an example:

The resulting PDF will look like

The main body text of the cover letter is located in template.txt.