General ⇒ Script to Create Latex Document from Folder of Images

[cakemonsterkite]

Hello,

I am a mediocre programmer and beginner to latex.

I would like to take a folder of png or jpeg images and put them into a latex document in a templated way such that they are all aligned and templated in a standard format, with the goal of eventually creating a PDF. I would like to do this with several folders of images repeatedly to display and distribute data, so a script would be helpful.

Can you suggest any resources for this task or does anyone have such a script? I am running ubuntu linux 64 bit.

Thank You,

Matt

[T3.]

I don't know of any specific packages for that purpose. As a bare bones solution you could write a macro that will be used as a template for a single image:

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\newcommand\imagetempl[1]{
% some formating code here
\includegraphics{#1}
% some formating code there}

Use a script to generate a file from the directory listing in the format:

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\imagetempl{imagefile1}
\imagetempl{imagefile2}
...
\imagetempl{imagefileN}

Finally \input this file into your document.

The scripting part will most likely require only a few lines of code, but unfortunately I don't know Linux well enough to help out you with this.

Cheers,

Tomek