Flyer-Generator

ABOUT

It's a web-interface for creating flyers quickly and easily.

User Stories

Use story #1:

• Person is doing workshop, wants flyer
• selects event from calendar
• tweaks the tagline
• hits the big red button
• downloads awesome pdf

Use story #2:

• wants to make an event not on the calendar
• fill out details
• hit the big red button
• download pdf

INSTALL

You have to get it from github:

git clone git://github.com/thenoviceoof/flyer-generator.git

You'll need these python libraries:

• Cherrypy
• Jinja2
• Google Calendar http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/downloads/list

And you also need in the top level of the git repo (next to flyer.py):

• A copy of wkhtmltopdf from http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
• A copy of site.conf: if you don't have one, just touch site.conf
• A tmp directory (run mkdir tmp)

DOTCLOUD INSTALL

So you want to upload this to dotcloud?

• Sign up for a dotcloud account

• Install the dotcloud client side CLI

• Register your API key with your client

• Find a copy of libXrender.so.1 for linux - under Ubuntu 11.04, this sits under

  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1

  Copy it here, so that wkhtmltopdf actually runs under dotcloud

• Then, do this:

  dotcloud push --all flyergen .

• The --all option pushes your wkhtmltopdf along with everything else

USAGE

To run:

./flyer.py

Real Usage

To write your own templates:

• Be sure to target webkit, since that's what wkhtmltopdf uses

BUGS

Bugs aren't cool, telling us about bugs is. Report issues/suggestions on github:

https://github.com/thenoviceoof/flyer-generator/issues