Dürer PDF generator for local contest

This scripts generates PDF files for the local contest. Each team gets a copy of each file in their category with their teamnames printed in the header. The final files are merged into a single PDF file for each location.

Tab-separated value (.tsv) files are used to define the files and the teams. In Google Sheet you can export a sheet to .tsv file.

Install

It is recommended to use virtual environment. After that install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

USAGE:

1. PDF files: Copy PDF files which need to be compiled in the folder pdfsrc.
2. Category-wise files: Create a .tsv file where you define how many copies of each file should be created for each team in specific category. (see files.tsv.sample)
3. Team datas: Create a .tsv file where you define what to print in the header of each team. (see teamdatas.tsv.sample)
4. Run the script

python generator.py input_tsvs/files.tsv input_tsvs/teamdatas.tsv

Additional options:

--loglevel [DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR] (default: INFO)
--twosided: add blank page after each odd number of pages (default: False)
--force: ignore errors and continue (default: False)
--from_line [line_number]: start from this line in the team data file (default: 1)

This creates for all places (here Budapest, VPG) files like target/Budapest, VPG/035-00.pdf. You might want to check out the generated PDFs for the weirder teamnames.

5. Merge the files for each location:

python merger.py --aftertext 1oldalas_feladatsor

Debug

If some error happened you can try

• Run F5 in VsCode with the generator.py file open. This will stop at the error and you can check the variables.
• Running in debug level: python generator.py --loglevel=DEBUG
• Checking the output file at target/location/n.tex. Which file failed should be easy to determine.