Use pure LaTeX to batch create Certificates. Just add names into file...

Use pure LaTeX to batch create Certificates. Just add names into file CertificateOfParticipation_names.csv

.gitignore

@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ git_beginner/_build/latex/
 git_beginner/_build/singlehtml/
 git_beginner/_build/linkcheck/
 _old_/
+linux_intermediate/_build/certificates/

linux_intermediate/CertificateOfParticipation.tex

+\documentclass[16pt]{scrartcl}
+\usepackage[margin=1cm]{geometry}
+
+\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+\usepackage{mdframed}
+\usepackage{tgschola}
+\usepackage{datetime}
+\usepackage{currfile}
+\usepackage{graphicx}
+\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
+
+
+\usepackage{datatool}
+\DTLloaddb{names}{names.csv}
+
+\newdateformat{mydate}{\monthname, \THEYEAR}
+
+\begin{document}
+\pagestyle{empty}
+
+\DTLforeach{names}{\Firstname=Firstname,\Lastname=Lastname}{
+    \centering
+    {
+    \Large
+    \vspace*{20px}
+
+    {\color{RoyalBlue}\huge\bfseries Certificate of Participation}\par	
+        %{\LARGE\color{Dandelion}\decofourleft\quad{\color{BrickRed}\decoone}\quad\decofourright}\par
+	\vskip2em
+	
+    \linespread{2}\selectfont
+	Awarded to\\\par 	
+        {\Huge\bfseries{\underline{\Firstname{ }\Lastname}}}\par
+	\vskip2em
+	For the successful completion of the\par
+	\vskip2em
+	}
+        \begin{mdframed}[userdefinedwidth=.9\textwidth, align=center, linecolor=RoyalBlue,linewidth=4pt,frametitlealignment=\center]
+            \linespread{2}\selectfont
+            \centering{\color{RoyalBlue}\LARGE\bfseries \coursetitle }
+        \end{mdframed}\par	
+
+    \vskip2em
+    \includegraphics[width=.9\textwidth]{_static/bio-it_logo.pdf}
+
+    \vfill
+    {\small \mydate\today \hfill { } \\
+    Advanced Training Centre \hfill Holger Dinkel \& Frank Thommen\\
+    EMBL Heidelberg \hfill Structural \& Computational Biology Unit}
+
+    \pagebreak
+    }
+\end{document}

linux_intermediate/CertificateOfParticipation_ILC.sh

-#!/bin/bash
-cd attendees
-cat attendees.csv |while read name; do sed -e "0,/FIRSTNAME LASTNAME/s/FIRSTNAME LASTNAME/$name/" ../CertificateOfParticipation_ALC.svg >| ${name}.svg; convert ${name}.svg ${name}.pdf;done ; pdfjoin *.pdf
-cd -

linux_intermediate/CertificateOfParticipation_names.csv

+Firstname,Lastname

linux_intermediate/Makefile

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ALLSPHINXOPTS   = -d $(BUILDDIR)/doctrees $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
 # the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others
 I18NSPHINXOPTS  = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
 
-.PHONY: help clean html dirhtml singlehtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp devhelp epub latex latexpdf text man changes linkcheck doctest gettext
+.PHONY: help clean html dirhtml singlehtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp devhelp epub latex latexpdf text man changes linkcheck doctest gettext certificates
 
 help:
 	@echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of"
@@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ epub:
 	@echo
 	@echo "Build finished. The epub file is in $(BUILDDIR)/epub."
 
+certificates:
+	mkdir -p $(BUILDDIR)/certificates
+	pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode  -output-directory=$(BUILDDIR)/certificates "\def\coursetitle{Intermediate Linux Course:\\\\Commandline and Basic Scripting} \input{CertificateOfParticipation.tex}"
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The epub file is in $(BUILDDIR)/certificates."
+
 latex:
 	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b latex $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/latex
 	@echo

linux_intermediate/attendees/attendees.csv

-attendees_LSI-4.csv
\ No newline at end of file