Our customer would like to give participation certificates for students undergoing a singing class. Currently they have printed certificates where in they fill the candidate name and the grade he obtained with the teachers signature.
We would like to automate this, so that the dynamic output mentioned above is automatically printed somehow on this sheet. How do we do this? Are there any tools which help you with positioning the dynamic output onto this template sheet.
http://www.123certificates.com provides some of the capabilities but looks like printing will happen on an A-4 sheet, how would you make this print on a dynamic template (either in pdf or word)
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You could just use OpenOffice (or MS’s suite) with mailing fonctionnality. For precise placement, you could use a document with tables having fixed columns/row length.
For example, you’d have blank OO Writer document, with tables, and you’d positions the wanted fields accordingly. Since it’s a certificate, maybe you’ll want to put the page in landscape mode.
You’d have another OO Calc document, with the names of all the people you’d want to print a certificate for.
Then you just follow this tutorial on mail merging:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/writer2_EN.html
Print your page a few times on a blank sheet to see if everything fits/align properly.
Oh, and watch out for long names.
Then you can print it on the “real” certificate paper.