I am currently setting up a serial letter (ie. one letter/same content, multiple recipients). My current script outputs all pages in one, long PDF document. Is there way to make LaTeX generate separate PDFs, one for each letter?
Main TeX document:
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[11pt]{g-brief}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[arrow, matrix, curve]{xy}
\usepackage{graphicx,type1cm,eso-pic,color}
\lochermarke
\faltmarken
%\fenstermarken
\trennlinien
\Name {My Name}
\Strasse {My Street 123}
\Zusatz {}
\RetourAdresse {}
\Ort {12345 Whereilive}
\Land {}
\Telefon {555-1212}
\Telefax {555-1313}
\EMail {some@address.com}
\Unterschrift {My Name}
\Adresse {
Some \\ Recipient\\Address}
\Betreff {Why am I writing to You today?}
\Datum {\today}
%\IhrZeichen {}
%\IhrSchreiben {}
%\MeinZeichen {cts 20100506.1}
\Anrede {Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,}
\Gruss {Mit freundlichem Gruss,}{1cm}
\Anlagen {\emph{Anlage: some other page}}
\newcommand{\BriefAn}[5]
{
\newpage
\Adresse{#1 #2\\ #3 \\\\ \textbf{#4}}
\begin{g-brief}
\shorthandoff{"}
I would like to ask you this
\begin{enumerate}
\item yabber yabber
\item somme foobar
\item more yabber
\item more foobar
\item enough of this already
\end{enumerate}
\end{g-brief}
}
\begin{document}
\input{Adressen.tex}
\end{document}
\endinput
Adressen.tex contains this:
\BriefAn{Firstname}{Lastname}{Some Street 314}{12345 Somewhere}{m}
\BriefAn{Firstname}{Lastname}{Some Street 314}{12345 Somewhere}{m}
\BriefAn{Firstname}{Lastname}{Some Street 314}{12345 Somewhere}{m}
\BriefAn{Firstname}{Lastname}{Some Street 314}{12345 Somewhere}{m}
Best Answer
You can exploit the
write18
facility and invokepdftk
(link for pdftk) from within latex:Compile this with
pdflatex
. You will get 4 pdf files with namesletter-page-<page number>
in the same folder.