Hi Jan. I'm a gtg developer and the creator of the export plugin.
I've tried your template, and it works just great! It would be good for people
who prefer the pen and paper.
So, to make it quick to create a pocketmod we would need:
- a way to run scripts on the file generated with the template. I'm thinking
we could have, in the same directory of template_example a file script_example.
If it exists, GTG automatically runs ./scripts example
file_generated_from_the_template output_file. Any eventual parameter for the
script should be passed in the template (but I don't think it will be
necessary).
This is quite easy to do.
- A way to decide if the task text should be inserted in the template or not. A
possible quick way would be to have two different templates, since the template
file would need to be changed anyway. Easy too.
- Padding in the template to make the output file at least 8 pages long. The
quickest way that comes to my mind is generate the pdflatex file, get the
length of the file (something like pdfinfo brochure.pdf |grep 'Pages'|sed
's/Pages:\s*\([0-9]*\)/\1/' ), and insert enough /newpage to have it long
enough.
What do you think?
** Changed in: gtg
Assignee: (unassigned) => Luca Invernizzi (invernizzi)
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A q&d way to export to a pocketmod
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Bug description:
I really grew fond of the pocketmod printout of Thinking Rock and won't switch
to gtg until it has a similar feature. So I hacked a quick and dirty way to
create one for gtg 0.2.4
You need:
- export plugin
- pdflatex
- pdfjam
- pdftk
- files attached to this report
1. activate export plugin and place template_pocketmod.tex in
/usr/share/gtg/GTG/plugins/export/export_templates/
2. export to a tex-file using the new export option
3. run pdflatex on your exported file
4. run pocketmod input.pdf output.pdf
5. print output.pdf
Restrictions:
- since I do have a lot of tasks I only print the tasknames, but not the task
texts.
- you need to have enough tasks to create 8 or more pdf pages in step 3.
- it's designed for A4 format
This was written and tested on an up-to-date Ubuntu 10.04.
My hope is to get the discussion going for a proper export feature.
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