# CardGenerator

**Repository Path**: uygurjan2008_admin/card-generator

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: CardGenerator
- **Description**: Card generator is a simple tool for batch generation of card picture from excel data, user can customize card UI through xlsx template file
- **Primary Language**: C#
- **License**: LGPL-3.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 2
- **Created**: 2022-05-20
- **Last Updated**: 2022-05-20

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# Card generator

## Technical details
 - this software is written in Dotnet6 + C# + WPF so only works on windows platform.
 - Only supports xlsx file (both template and data file)

# What?
Card generator is a simple tool for batch generation of card picture from excel data

## Why?
Users often need to batch generate card pictures like postcard, name card from excel data file, this is very repeated work with excel (or maybe complex with VBA and something is maybe not possible in VBA like image processing)

so this tool is very handy and very simple to use

## How
This software is designed to very flexible use cases, user can customize card UI through xlsx template file,
after that, this tool is generate cards from user provided xlsx template file

The UI of this tool is looks like this:

![UI](./SampleData/Capture8.PNG)

## Usage:

1. Prepare your excel data file, for example: 

![](./SampleData/Capture.PNG)

2. Design Design your postcard template in Excel looks like this:

![](./SampleData/Capture1.PNG)
Template file is support full excel feature because it is simple excel file.

3. Rename your postcard template file to your_template_file.tp (only change the xlsx postfix to tp is okay)
4. Create new template in this software and import the renamed template file into it, the demonstrated picture is:
![](./SampleData/Capture2.PNG)
5. Open your excel data file, select your template, after opening the tool is looks like this:
![](./SampleData/Capture3.PNG)
6. just simple click the "Export" button and then select some location that you want to save the generated images (and or PDF, Png files),

and you can see the generated pictures looks like this:

![](./SampleData/Capture4.PNG)

### If you want to generate multiple pictures on same image then:

just change your template excel file is okay, for example:

![](./SampleData/Capture7.PNG)

and then you get:

![](./SampleData/Capture6.PNG)