This quick and dirty script processes a simple ; delimited csv files to:
- Extract data from the csv (name, surname, email, url)
- Shorten the URL using tinyurl
- Generate a QR for the url and shortened url (in png format)
- Add some text info to the generated pngs
- Convert the png files to their pdf versions
- Customize email body text
- Send email with attached png's and pdf's
The script requires imagemagick convert, qrencode, curl and mutt.
If you get an error when converting from png to pdf using convert, continue reading.
To make convert work from png to pdf, there is a known bug in old ghostcript versions. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52998331/imagemagick-security-policy-pdf-blocking-conversion for further info.
In my case, this is the relevant section I applied:
On Ubuntu 19.04 through 22.04 and probably any later versions coming with ImageMagick 6, here's how you fix the issue by removing that workaround:
Make sure you have Ghostscript ≥9.24:
gs --version If yes, just remove this whole following section from /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml: