docma 2.2.0

Document manufacturer

Docma -- Document Manufacturing for Fun and Profit

Docma is a document generator that can assemble and compose PDF and HTML documents from document templates with dynamic, data driven content.

Genesis

Docma was developed at Origin Energy as part of the Jindabyne initiative. While not part of our core IP, it proved valuable internally, and we're sharing it in the hope it's useful to others.

Kudos to Origin for fostering a culture that empowers its people to build complex technology solutions in-house.

Features

Docma features include:

• Document content can be defined in any combination of HTML and PDF.

• Content can also be defined in other formats that are compiled to HTML (e.g. Markdown, CSV).

• Dynamic content preparation (conditionals, loops, transformation etc.) based on structured data parameters fed to the rendering process at run-time.

• Composition of multiple source documents into a single output document.

• Conditional inclusion of component documents based on parameter based conditions evaluated at run-time.

• Deep schema validation of structured data parameters at run-time.

• Watermarking / stamping of PDF output.

• Support for charts via the Vega-lite specification with multiple data sources, including live database connections.

• Readily extensible to add new data sources and content types.

Installation and Usage

See the user guide for details.