Exporting Badges for Printing

Badges are generated out of BACON, adjusted in the code by hand, and regenerated as necessary. Once they are generated, a SQL query is run to mark them as "exported."

Badges are exported as individual PNG files. After they are exported, an additional script is run that combines all the badges in that folder into full pages. Adobe Acrobat is utilized for combining the PNG pages into a final PDF (or multiple PDFs) sent to the printer.

To update Acrobat to be able to combine the files losslessly

1. Open Acrobat
2. Open Preferences
3. Convert To PDF
4. Select PNG
5. Update Grayscale and Color to "Zip"