TombolaCardPDF

Tombola card pdf generator from html format template

Results

Setting up

pip3 install jinja2
pip3 install pdfkit
pip3 install PyPDF2
sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf

or

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run the script

cat cards_set.txt > python3 pdf_formatter.py

OR

Pipe generator output directly into pdf_formatter

python3 generator.py | python3 pdf_formatter.py -b "place your bottom text here"

generator.py arguments

-n Number of card sets. Default value is 1

pdf_formatter.py Arguments

-b Bottom text

-l Logo filename

-t Template (HTML) filename

-o Output PDF filename

Genrate multiple card sets

This command will generate 5 card sets:

python3 generator.py -n 5 | python3 pdf_formatter.py -b "place your bottom text here" -l logo.jpeg

All the sets will be merged into a single pdf file

Bottom text on multiple lines

python3 pdf_formatter.py -b "First line <br> second line <br> third line"

Divide multiple lines with "<br>" HTML tag

cards_set.txt sample

Input must be formatted in the following way: cards_set.txt sample

Formatting rules:

• there must be two lines for each card:
  • the first one is the name of that card inside the set
  • the second one is a Python list containing one list of integers for each row (of that card)
• everything after the last pair of lines will be discarded (odd line)
• blank fileds placeholder is -1