Build and Publish PDF from LaTeX file

Here's what you need to do if you want to compile your LaTeX document in the cloud with GitHub Actions.

• Sign up for GitHub Actions and turn them on for a repository containing your LaTeX code
• I assume you want to have the generate PDF in the same repository as the one you're working on [1]
• Generate a gh-pages branch for your repository and make sure it's being served by GitHub pages by going to 'Settings' > 'Options' in your repository
• Generate an SSH key to use for deployment:
  • Do this with

  cd && mkdir tmp && cd tmp
  ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -o -a 100 -f actions_key

  • Go to 'Settings' > 'Deploy keys' and copy the contents of the public key (actions_key.pub) to the form field.
  • Go to 'Settings' > 'Secrets' and copy the contents of the private key (actions_key) to a new secret. Name this secred DEPLOY_KEY. This makes sure that the key is correctly picked up by the GitHub Action below.
• Copy the main.yaml file from here to $your_repository/.github/workflows/main.yaml.
  • You can name the output PDF file however you want.
  • Change the settings in the file relating to your Git user.nameand user.email.
  • Change the directory where you would keep all the LaTeX file
  • Change the name of LaTex file and keep the name of PDF in check PDF section same as main file of .tex
  • Also take care that the file name of the LaTeX file is the same as the one you actually use in your repository.
• Commit a good version of your LaTeX file and wait a bit
• Enjoy your automatically built PDF at $username.github.io/$your_repository/Resume_RishabhVerma_SDE.pdf

How to use this

• Fork project.
• Checkout branch development.
• Do required changes in resume/tex files.
• Push to origin
• Merge the branch to Master.
• Pipeline would start building the project.
• After successful build, PDF would be available under branch gh-pages.