json-to-svg-to-pdf

This is a silly module we wrote to generate business cards. As a result, consider this module very YMMV. (Spoiler alert: the code is intentionally dense for use as a refactoring exercise.)

To use this yourself:

1. Define two SVG templates in template/front.svg and template/back.svg with whatever mustache template strings you like (e.g. {{fullName}})
2. Create a JSON/CSON for each person in input/ (e.g. input/justin.cson) that defines those mustache attribute names
3. Run json-to-svg-to-pdf

What you'll get is, for each input file, a pair of font-embedded PDFs in output/ (e.g. output/justin-front.pdf and output/justin-back.pdf).

Prerequisites

The PDF generation relies on librsvg's rsvg-convert being on your path.

To install it on a Mac with homebrew, run brew install librsvg.

TODO

The glaring limitation currently is the code assumes you have exactly two templates defined for each input. It could be complicated/improved to discover 1…n templates and follow the same naming pattern