Command-line layout

Hi,

I found passepartout yesterday and got really excited because it seemed to fit 
my needs perfectly.  I was disappointed to find, however, that xml2ps only 
does typesetting, not layout, and there is no command-line tool to take 
a ".pp" file and perform layout to print or to generate a ".ps" file (which 
is what I need, actually).

Has anyone looked into how difficult it would be to pull out the components 
that do the postscript generation, so that I could create output on the 
command line?  I have the skills to do the work, but I'm working to a very 
tight deadline.

BTW, what I'm doing is printing ID badges, which is just printing on a 
a "CRL80"-sized (243 x 153 points) plastic card.  I'd like to use the 
passepartout GUI to create layout templates, and then run the document 
generation many times with different inputs (images and text) to produce the 
PS images for the front and back of each card.  Then I can send the PS files 
to the printer at a later stage in the process.

Thanks,

	Shawn.
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