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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