Hans, Thank you for the suggestions. Let me try them out and feedback back to you (as the batch set-up involves > 10,000 docs).
Best, Ramkumar On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 7:24 PM Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 11/4/2020 4:48 AM, Ramkumar KB wrote: > > Hans, > > > > Thank you so much for the kind response. > > > > Apologies that I was not very clear in my initial query. I have - > > > > 1. MyStatement.tex, with all the necessary fonts, static text, images, > > header, footer etc > > 2. MyStatement.tex reads from a JSON file for certain sections of the > > document for the dynamic content > > 3. context MyStatement.tex produces MyStatement.pdf > > > > How do I do the above steps 1 to 3 in a continuous fashion such that - > > > > * Output is MyStatement_1.pdf (reads from data_1.json), > > MyStatement_2.pdf (reads from data_2.json) and so on > > * The tex processing is fast as fonts etc are loaded once (as the Tex > > template is same for all the MyStatement_n.pdf) > > > > From the sample code that you gave, I get a hint that this can be > > possibly done using ConTeXt Lua Document approach. Is this correct? > i'd just write a script that calls context like > > context mystatement.tex --myjsonsection=1 --batch > context mystatement.tex --myjsonsection=2 --batch > context mystatement.tex --myjsonsection=3 --batch > > etc .. maybe --once if no multipass is needed, or --runs=2 if you know > how many runs are needed > > to stay in a run and kind of restart is asking for troubles because what > should be reset? of course i could context make do that buit it doesn't > pay off > > an alternative that you generate one document with all statements and > use mutool to split of the pages > > but anyway, nowadays machines are fast enough to have separate runs (and > one can run them in parallel) > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >
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