I venture there is huge money in a sweet path from latex resumes in pdf format to ms word. I want to offer my clients a basic template but if I choose the latex route, I will inevitably have requests for the latter no matter how lame the format.
Have you tried using a print media stylesheet? You could hide the navigation, reduce the whitespace, maybe shrink the font size a little bit, and remove link text decoration.
Great idea. I have used print media sheets in the past, but found them easy to have regressions e.g. elements that are introduced but not hidden. A webpage to pdf process is also vunerable to that though.
I think ideally, because the resume renderer is a react component, I'd rather just boot up chromium with the react component and resume data and do a fully clean render of the page into pdf.