From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: generate multiple files from one source
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:41:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ce9edb4-3063-1131-78f0-ceccd0552d48@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27a95bd7-7974-2139-4d18-15791c4f875e@gmx.es>
On 2/18/2017 11:27 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have the following sample:
>
> \setuppapersize[A8, landscape]
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{10}{
> \startpagemakeup[align=center]
> This is invoice number \recurselevel.
>
> Customer name from CSV file.
>
> Other data from the same CSV file.
> \stoppagemakeup}
> \stoptext
>
> How can I get new PDF documents with a one invoice per document instead
> of new page breaks?
>
> I need PDF documents with only one invoice (but with the correct number)
> and also a single PDF document with all invoices.
>
> Of course, my real documents are more complex. What I need is a file
> breaking command. Appending -1, -2, -3... -n to the PDF file name would
> be fine for me.
>
> How could I achieve this in the ConTeXt compilation?
>
> Many thanks for your help,
just make one invoice where you pass the variable data on the command
line and then make a small lua script that loops and processes each variant
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-19 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-18 22:27 Pablo Rodriguez
2017-02-18 23:15 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2017-02-19 10:41 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2017-02-19 19:47 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2017-02-19 19:02 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2017-02-19 19:54 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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