Feature Request: Badge PDF generator

[osfameron]

This is something that we always struggle with. ACT could give help here:

• could easily generate a PDF in Perl
  • double-sided!
  • large text!
• alternatively, should provide an export feature that
• not duplicate lists (e.g. speaker / attendee. Over the years, this has bitten dakkar, hackman, ...)
• name export should honour "Stay pseudonymous"
• default to nickname / first name as major item, to allow READABLE TEXT
• show full name/surname below (unless "Stay pseudonymous" selected)

As Su-Shee points out, we could do with extra fields:

• preferred major item? (or is nickname sufficient?)
• preferred sub-item -- this could default to full name if not-pseudonymous, but would be great to choose other descriptions, e.g. "Lovely Vegan Code Princess" etc. (or could we re-purpose the Bio field?)

[Su-Shee]

To simplify things massively my suggestion would be:

• keep "stay pseudonymous" button but rename it to "display real name" (because it's unclear what it means if you stay pseudonymous - does it ONLY mean "no real name displayed" - but what is displayed instead? so in terms of proper usability state what it does clearly)
• make it a simple input field so people can choose whatever they want - not everybody wants their ACT login/nick on their badge. Or their old CPAN handle.
• if nothing is input, use ACT nick, if no ACT nick is available use firstname. If nothing is input AND "display real name" is unchecked, print "sensible default" on the badge. ;)

[osfameron]

Note that there is difference between ACT login (unique, non-changeable) and ACT nickname (free text, non-unique)

Also, the badge has to have something so, I think the order should be:

1. nickname (user-selected) if it exists
2. first name (unless pseudonymous)
3. ACT login (that's better than "sensible default", as we have to be able to distinguish people somehow and they give us no choice)

[meis]

Would be nice to have some kind of templates to customize the batch design for each conference.

[osfameron]

PDF::Reuse might be the bomb here?

Basically, ACT should supply:

• main item (nick/etc. as discussed)
• second item (e.g. full name or short bio)
• a variable (attendee? newbie VIP? speaker? orga?) that the template
  could use to choose a colour/something

On 3 September 2014 11:59, Marc Egea i Sala [email protected]
wrote:

Would be nice to have some kind of templates to customize the batch design
for each conference.

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