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Fix the spacing of a PDF CV in one click

Uneven gaps, misaligned bullets, a page that is too tight or too airy: the site measures the spaces in your CV and realigns them, with no AI, or on request.

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After the analysis, your CV's spacing opens in “Same layout”: one click fixes it, with no AI.

What the feature does

A CV touched up in Canva, Word or another tool often keeps traces: a wider gap between two jobs, a misaligned bullet, a section stuck to the one above. The site measures those spaces in your PDF, with no AI. For each kind of gap (heading to text, bullet to bullet, paragraph to paragraph…), it takes the document's usual gap, the median of the gaps of that kind, and realigns those that stray from it. The space saved goes back to the section starts, in equal shares, so the column ends where it used to. Drawn bullets and pictograms move with their text, and a bullet sitting higher or lower than the others is put back level with its first line; a section never drops below its limit (page bottom, banner, next element).

Once your CV is open in “Same layout”, the “Spacing” box offers “Fix the spacing” (even gaps), “More spacious” and “Tighter”: those last two add or remove 0.35 of a line at every gap. In a written request, “more space before Education” moves the block in question by 0.8 of a line: the AI only chooses more, less or even, and where; the distances come from the site's scale. From the analysis onwards, the site flags the visible issues in your original CV and offers to fix them.

On the left, two gaps that are too wide, a section stuck to the one above (red marks) and a bullet sitting higher than its line. On the right, after “Fix the spacing”: the same gap between blocks of the same kind (green marks), bullets level with their line, and a column that ends in the same place. A diagram, not a screenshot.

When to use it

You added or removed a line in Canva or Word and the rest did not follow: a hole in the middle of a section, or two blocks stuck together.
An in-place edit shortened a text and left a blank below it: “Fix the spacing” shares out the freed space.
The bullets in your skills are not level with their line, or not all at the same height.
Your page spills over slightly, or looks empty at the bottom: “Tighter” or “More spacious” by a notch, without touching the text. To cut content, the “A one-page CV” guide gives the method; for margins, fonts and columns, see laying out a readable CV.

Common mistakes

Shrinking the font to win a line: the CV gets harder to read, while one notch of “Tighter” wins room without touching the characters.
Exporting a PDF made of images (a scan, a “flattened” export): there is no text to move, and the ATS robots cannot read anything in it either. Export your CV again as a text PDF; the Canva CV and ATS guide explains how.

Step by step

01Upload your PDF CVThe site measures the spacing in your browser, with no AI. If it spots visible gaps or misaligned bullets, the “Fixes” tab shows “Layout: uneven spacing”, with examples: “Too much space between … and …”.
02Click “Fix the spacing”From that notice or from “Same layout”: your CV appears realigned, with no AI and no credit. “Leave it as is” closes the notice if the gap is deliberate.
03Pick the settingIn the “Spacing” box: “Fix the spacing”, “More spacious” or “Tighter”, one at a time; “As before” undoes it. Then download your PDF (with your free account).
04Or ask the AI“More space before Education”, “tighten the whole CV”: the request is handled with your other edits, and the list of changes says what was done.

What the AI does, and does not do

The model reads and writes; the code calculates and checks. No figure shown ever comes from a language model.

The AI does

Understand a spacing request and say where to put more, less or an even gap.
Find, from your sentence, the block above which to add or remove space.

The AI never does

Work out a distance or move a block: gaps are measured and applied by the code, from a fixed scale.
Step in when you click “Fix the spacing”: that button does not call the AI.
Touch the text when all you ask for is spacing.

Limits

PDF only, 4 pages at most: for a Word CV, “My structure” and “New template” redraw the CV with even spacing.
The first block of a section stays put and the ones below realign under it; where there is no room (page bottom), the added space is reduced to fit.
An area where blocks sit side by side (a table, skills in two columns under one heading) does not move; a coloured side column is realigned on its own, within its background.
These settings are free and unlimited; a written request to the AI is an edit like any other: 2 a day without an account, 30 with a free account, which uses one AI credit on it.

Privacy

The AI-free realignment happens entirely in your browser; a request to the AI sends the PDF to handle it, after which it is forgotten. Full details in the privacy policy.

Frequently asked questions

Can the site break my layout?

It only moves text and the bullets attached to it, vertically, within its column, never past the section's limit. Photo, banners, shapes and columns stay where they are, and “As before” undoes everything.

Why “Nothing to change” when I can see a gap?

The site compares each gap with the other gaps of the same kind: it needs at least two to set the rule, and only realigns what clearly strays from it. A one-off or deliberate gap stays put. In that case, ask the AI for it at that spot: “more space above Education”.

Does the spacing change what the ATS robots read?

No: the blocks only move vertically, and their text and order stay the same. What a robot reads in your CV is shown by the ATS check in the analysis.

How do I fit my CV on one page?

“Tighter” closes every gap by a notch, without touching the text. If that is not enough, ask the AI to shorten a section, or let the site rebuild the CV in the same look. The “A one-page CV” guide gives the method for choosing what to cut. Read the “A one-page CV” guide

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Going further

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What the feature does

When to use it

You added or removed a line in Canva or Word and the rest did not follow: a hole in the middle of a section, or two blocks stuck together.
An in-place edit shortened a text and left a blank below it: “Fix the spacing” shares out the freed space.
The bullets in your skills are not level with their line, or not all at the same height.
Your page spills over slightly, or looks empty at the bottom: “Tighter” or “More spacious” by a notch, without touching the text. To cut content, the “A one-page CV” guide gives the method; for margins, fonts and columns, see laying out a readable CV.

Common mistakes

Shrinking the font to win a line: the CV gets harder to read, while one notch of “Tighter” wins room without touching the characters.
Exporting a PDF made of images (a scan, a “flattened” export): there is no text to move, and the ATS robots cannot read anything in it either. Export your CV again as a text PDF; the Canva CV and ATS guide explains how.

Step by step

01Upload your PDF CVThe site measures the spacing in your browser, with no AI. If it spots visible gaps or misaligned bullets, the “Fixes” tab shows “Layout: uneven spacing”, with examples: “Too much space between … and …”.

02Click “Fix the spacing”From that notice or from “Same layout”: your CV appears realigned, with no AI and no credit. “Leave it as is” closes the notice if the gap is deliberate.

03Pick the settingIn the “Spacing” box: “Fix the spacing”, “More spacious” or “Tighter”, one at a time; “As before” undoes it. Then download your PDF (with your free account).

04Or ask the AI“More space before Education”, “tighten the whole CV”: the request is handled with your other edits, and the list of changes says what was done.

Limits

PDF only, 4 pages at most: for a Word CV, “My structure” and “New template” redraw the CV with even spacing.

The first block of a section stays put and the ones below realign under it; where there is no room (page bottom), the added space is reduced to fit.

An area where blocks sit side by side (a table, skills in two columns under one heading) does not move; a coloured side column is realigned on its own, within its background.

These settings are free and unlimited; a written request to the AI is an edit like any other: 2 a day without an account, 30 with a free account, which uses one AI credit on it.