You will need the following software installed, most of which come by default on linux distributions : pdftk, sendemail, gnu barcode. The PDF template in the repo was made with LibreOffice.
The fill.sh script reads a simple flat text file. The database in the file must has the following format, one entry per line, tab separated without column headers (shown only for column identification below). if the script fails, make sure the file does not conta.in carriage return (\r). This script doesn't support UTF-8 characters (i.e. no É, È, Ö, Ä, Å, Ï etc...) so make sure you data doesn't container any else they will be removed.
name lname email refnumber member_type
Mo skidovsky [email protected] 76762867 full
boris lagardere [email protected] 49587798 full
hubert mauricette [email protected] 87787778 full
If you need to know the names of the fields in the PDF template us ethe following command in a termainal pdftk template.pdf
- FieldName: fname
- FieldName: email
- FieldName: refnumber
- FieldName: due_date
- FieldName: member_last_name
- FieldName: total_invoice