PDF-Generator

This project is a Python-based PDF certificate generator that automates the process of creating personalized certificates for a list of names. It uses reportlab to handle PDF creation and PyPDF2 for merging generated content with a predefined PDF template.

Features

• Generates personalized certificates.
• Merges personalized text onto a predefined PDF template.
• Outputs certificates as PDF files in a specified directory.

Prerequisites

Before you can run this script, you will need Python installed on your system along with the following Python libraries:

• reportlab
• PyPDF2

Here are the Terminal Steps:

1. python -m venv venv
2. source venv/bin/activate   # On Windows use `venv\Scripts\activate`
3. pip install reportlab PyPDF2
4. python3 pdfgen.py

Usage

To use the PDF-Generator, follow these steps:

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/PDF-Generator.git

Navigate to the cloned directory:

cd PDF-Generator

Run the script:

python PDFGEN.py

The script will generate PDFs and save them to the /OUTPUT directory.

Configuration

Setting Your Own Template To use your own PDF template:

Place your PDF template file into the project directory. Modify the template_pdf_path in the PDFGEN.py script to point to your template file. For example:

template_pdf_path = '/path/to/your/template.pdf'

Customizing Names

You can customize the names by modifying the names list in PDFGEN.py.

Example of names list:

names = [ "Bob Marley", "William Misiaszek", "Bob Dylan", ]