Re: Best way to create a large number of documents from database

[kaddour kardio <kaddourkardio@gmail.com>]

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A relatively simple way is to use a templating system such as jinja2 and
iterate over a mkiv template.
Calling context with subprocess and you got the result.

Le jeu. 16 avr. 2020 à 15:52, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> a écrit :

> On 4/16/2020 4:38 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 11:29, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> >>> On 16 Apr 2020, at 11:12, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have been asked to create a few thousand PDF documents from a CSV
> >>> "database" today
> >>
> >> In CPU cycles, the fastest way is to do a single context —once
> >> run generating all the pages as a single document, then using
> >> mutool merge to split it into separate documents using a (shell)
> >> loop.
> >
> > Just to make it clear: I don't really need to optimize on the CPU end,
> > as the bottleneck is on the other side of the keyboard, so as long as
> > the CPU can process 5k pages today, I'm fine with it :) :) :)
>
> 5K is nothing ... so that will work
>
> >>> One option is that I quickly draft a python script that creates a few
> >>> thousand TeX documents and compiles them individually, but it might be
> >>> easier if there was a way to just create a single template document
> >>> and then run something like
> >>>     context --some-params --N=42 --output=document-0042.pdf
> template.tex
> >>> or something along those lines.
> >>
> >> If you want to go this route (and you may have to if not each record
> >> fits exactly within a single page),
> >
> > I do have one page per document. The more annoying part is having
> > strange document names that need more attention when mapping page
> > number -> name (I'm not saying this is not doable).
>
> so, don't make files:
>
> - write a tex file foo.tex
> - process it: context --batch --result=1 --once foo
>
> etc ... so, use --result for the target name and use the same input name
>
> (I won't bother you with the template system in context that no one
> knows of.)
>
>   Hans
>
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