My question is very large, and I'm not sure if I should have put it here or on super-user, or else where, but I ask here as I'm using Ubuntu :)
It happen frequently that I need to create various variant of the same asset, with a base template and only a few difference in text. I always find it troublesome and error prone to do it manually, and each time, as a developer used to automation, I wonder if there would not be a way to automate that.
I am completely open to the tooling as long as it can generate something usable (pdf, png, html, odt, whatever...).
My current use case is to create 100 invitation card for a birthday party, with the name of each participant at the top of card (Dear XXX, you are invited to celebrate my birthday blah blah blah...).
I know how to customize text like that with spreadsheets by using a template in a cell and doing replace(), but even then I would just have "cells" in a single document, and I would not know how to export them automatically in single documents with a full layout.
I'm quite sure some software is able to do that, it is a use case so common it is not possible every body does it by hand everywhere in the world :)
Any clue ?