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🔥A command line tool to generate PDF and text files from csv data and Freemarker templates.🔥

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csv2pdf

🔥A command line tool to generate PDF (using Flyingsaucer) or text files from csv data and Freemarker templates🔥

How it works?

+--------------+ +--------------+ | CSV data | | FTL template | +--------------+ +--------------+ | | | | v v +--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ | CsvJDBC |---------->| Freemarker |----/--->| JSoup |--------->| FlyingSaucer | +--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ | | / | | | v v +--------------+ +--------------+ | TXT file | | PDF file | +--------------+ +--------------+

Build:

mvn clean package

Usage:

java -jar csv2pdf.jar

Options:

-csv_charset	CSV file charset (optional, default 'UTF-8')
-csv_extension	CSV file extesion (optional, default '')
-csv_file	CSV input file (optional, use instead -csv_query)
-csv_folder	CSV folder path (optional, default '.')
-csv_query	CSV query command (optional, use instead -csv_file)
-csv_separator	CSV separator character (optional, default ';')
-for_each	Generate one file per data record (optional, see notes below)
-ftl_encoding	FTL input file encoding (optional, default 'UTF-8')
-ftl_file	FTL input file
-pdf	PDF output file (optional, use instead -txt)
-dpi	PDF output file dpi (optional, default 96)
-txt	TXT output file (optional, use instead -pdf)
-txt_charset	TXT output file charset (optional, default 'UTF-8')

NOTES:

csv2pdf 2.0.0 and above uses freemarker's square bracket tag syntax and square bracket interpolation syntax.
Iterate "rows" collection inside your template if you are not using the -for_each option
You can use a templated output file name if using the -for_each option
See the examples folder!

Example 1:

java -jar csv2pdf.jar -csv_file data.csv -ftl_file template.ftl -pdf output.pdf

Example 2:

java -jar csv2pdf.jar -csv_file data.csv -ftl_file template2.ftl -for_each -pdf 'output_$.pdf'