card_generator_generator.py

from sys import argv
import os
import csv
import re
import subprocess

xindent = str(11.553572)
ystart = 894.94238
incr = 907.44238 - 894.94238

cupsoptions = "cupsfilter -P /etc/cups/ppd/cupsfilter.ppd -o ppi=100 -o fit-to-page -o fitplot -o media=Card -o page-top=0 -o page-left=0 -o page-right=0 -o page-bottom=0"

def lines(text, linelength):
	words = text.split()
	result = ""
	currentLeg = ""
	count = 0
	for w in words:
		if (len(currentLeg) + len(w) > linelength):
			count += 1
			ystep = ystart + (incr * count)
			result += '<tspan x="' + xindent + '" y="' + str(ystep) + '">' + currentLeg + '</tspan>'
			currentLeg = ""
		currentLeg += w + " "
	count += 1
	ystep = ystart + (incr * count)
	result += '<tspan x="' + xindent + '" y="' + str(ystep) + '">' + currentLeg + '</tspan>'
	return result

source = argv[1]
cardtemplate = argv[2]

txt = open(cardtemplate)
card = txt.read()

titleRe = re.compile('\$title')
descRe = re.compile('\$description')
typeRe = re.compile('\$type')
hitRe = re.compile('\$hit')
spaces = re.compile('\s')
pdfs = []
with open(source, 'rb') as csvfile:
	sourcereader = csv.reader(csvfile)
	for row in sourcereader:
		description = lines(row[2], 42)
		title = lines(row[0], 34)
		filledCard = titleRe.sub(row[0], card)
		filledCard = typeRe.sub(row[1], filledCard)
		filledCard = descRe.sub(description, filledCard)
		filledCard = hitRe.sub(row[4], filledCard)
		for i in range(0, int(row[5])):
			fname = row[0] + str(i)
			save = open(fname + ".svg", "w")
			save.write(filledCard)
			save.close()
			pdf = open(fname + ".pdf", "w")
			print cupsoptions + ' "' + fname + '.svg" > "' + fname + '.pdf"'
			pdfs.append('"' + fname + '.pdf"')
		print "gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=compiled.pdf " + " ".join(pdfs)

This is shitty code that does one specific thing- accepts a specially formatted CSV and an SVG template and creates a bunch of files that ends with a compiled.pdf, which is a deck of cards.