ma8u / py-svg-card-gen

A python script that automates the process of generating svg cards based on csv charts using svgwrite.

Py-svg-card-gen

A python script that automates the process of generating card-type graphics in svg format based on svgwrite.

Getting Started

Py-svg-card-gen is a kit for reading csv files and creating card-type graphics on predifined templates. There are two version included, a Cmd type App that has a prompt and can be used to test your settings and a class type script that can be used in your own scripts.

Cmd_app.py

Launch a prompt that has the following commands:

read_file {filename}

Read csv file and print last item from lines

count_file {filename}

Read csv file and count items and print sum

item_from {filename}

Read csv file, define line of source to be used and print last item

sqr3 {filename}

Read csv file, define line of source to be used and create type one square 3x3 svg card

sqr3m {filename}

Read csv file, define line of source to be used and create type two square 3x3 svg card (text in the middle)

sqr3_all {filename}

Read csv file, create type one svg cards for every line

sqr3m_all {filename}

Read csv file, create type two svg cards for every line, text in the middle

quit

Quit this app

info

For this list of commands

help

build-in Cmd help

Script.py

A script that has a class named card that gets 3 arguments:

card(data,data_row,filename)

data (csv file to read) data_row (line of csv file to read) filename (svg file output card)

and has 2 methods:

sqr3(self)

create type one svg cards from data_row

sqr3m(self)

create type two svg cards from data_row

Prerequisites

This Project needs Python 2.x and svgwrite installed.