Feature Request: Badge PDF generator

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Feature Request: Badge PDF generator #6

Open osfameron opened 10 years ago

osfameron commented 10 years ago

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 commented 10 years ago

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 commented 10 years ago

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:

nickname (user-selected) if it exists
first name (unless pseudonymous)
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 commented 10 years ago

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

osfameron commented 10 years ago

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

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

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