Devfest Badges

Introduction

A small script that parses a list of attendees from a CSV, converts the attendee to a SVG badge, and outputs a PDF with a complete list of badges ready for printing.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.x
• Inkscape
• Pdftk >= 2.x

Expected CSV structure

A semicolon separated list with no header

[first_name];[last_name];[company];[twitter_handle]

e.g.: Joe;Smith;Company;stwitter

Usage

The script uses the samples/attendees.csv for attendee data. As well as samples/template.svg for the badges. Both can be overridden, see optional arguments.

python3 badges.py [-h] [-a ATTENDEES] [-t TEMPLATE] [-d DPI]

optional arguments:

-h, --help          
                    show this help message and exit
-a ATTENDEES, --attendees ATTENDEES
                    attendee list to import data from. MUST ba a CSV.
-t TEMPLATE, --template TEMPLATE
                    badge template file to be used. MUST be an SVG.
-d DPI, --dpi DPI     
                    output DPI