Pipeline publishing

apt-get install pdftk inkscape

The publishing part

import sys, os
import codecs
f = codecs.open("input.txt", "r", "utf-8")
lines = f.read().splitlines()
# strip blank lines
lines = [x for x in lines if x.strip()]
import random

for c in range(10):
    text = random.choice(lines)
    svgname = "out%04d.svg" % c
    pdfname = "out%04d.pdf" % c
    print svgname
    f = codecs.open(svgname, "w", "utf-8")    
    dump(f)
    f.close()
    os.system("inkscape %s --export-pdf=%s" % (svgname, pdfname))

os.system("pdftk out*.pdf output book.pdf")

The svg template:

def dump (f, text, page):
	f.write("""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->

<svg
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
   xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
   width="524.40942"
   height="744.09448"
   id="svg2"
   version="1.1"
   inkscape:version="0.47 r22583"
   sodipodi:docname="New document 1">
  <defs
     id="defs4">
    <inkscape:perspective
       sodipodi:type="inkscape:persp3d"
       inkscape:vp_x="0 : 526.18109 : 1"
       inkscape:vp_y="0 : 1000 : 0"
       inkscape:vp_z="744.09448 : 526.18109 : 1"
       inkscape:persp3d-origin="372.04724 : 350.78739 : 1"
       id="perspective10" />
  </defs>
  <sodipodi:namedview
     id="base"
     pagecolor="#ffffff"
     bordercolor="#666666"
     borderopacity="1.0"
     inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
     inkscape:pageshadow="2"
     inkscape:zoom="0.61742627"
     inkscape:cx="80.403821"
     inkscape:cy="217.57273"
     inkscape:document-units="px"
     inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
     showgrid="false"
     inkscape:window-width="1511"
     inkscape:window-height="910"
     inkscape:window-x="0"
     inkscape:window-y="25"
     inkscape:window-maximized="0" />
  <metadata
     id="metadata7">
    <rdf:RDF>
      <cc:Work
         rdf:about="">
        <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
        <dc:type
           rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
        <dc:title></dc:title>
      </cc:Work>
    </rdf:RDF>
  </metadata>
  <g
     inkscape:label="Layer 1"
     inkscape:groupmode="layer"
     id="layer1"
     transform="translate(0,-308.26769)">
    <flowRoot
       xml:space="preserve"
       id="flowRoot2816"
       style="font-size:40px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Bitstream Vera Sans"
       transform="translate(0,308.26769)"><flowRegion
         id="flowRegion2818"><rect
           id="rect2820"
           width="445.39731"
           height="553.91229"
           x="34.012157"
           y="83.286842" /></flowRegion><flowPara
         id="flowPara2822" /></flowRoot>    <flowRoot
       xml:space="preserve"
       id="flowRoot2824"
       style="font-size:40px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Bitstream Vera Sans"
       transform="translate(1.3658447,425.26064)"><flowRegion
         id="flowRegion2826"><rect
           id="rect2828"
           width="453.49545"
           height="524.75903"
           x="34.012157"
           y="62.231693" /></flowRegion><flowPara
         id="flowPara2830"
         style="font-size:28px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;text-align:center;text-anchor:middle;font-family:Georgia;-inkscape-font-specification:Georgia">""")
	f.write(text)
	f.write("""</flowPara></flowRoot>    <flowRoot
       xml:space="preserve"
       id="flowRoot2832"
       style="font-size:40px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Bitstream Vera Sans"
       transform="translate(20.931274,308.26769)"><flowRegion
         id="flowRegion2834"><rect
           id="rect2836"
           width="119.85236"
           height="69.643944"
           x="181.39818"
           y="651.77576" /></flowRegion><flowPara
         id="flowPara2838"
         style="font-size:28px;text-align:center;text-anchor:middle;font-family:Georgia;-inkscape-font-specification:Georgia">""")
	f.write(str(page))
	f.write("""</flowPara></flowRoot>  </g>
</svg>""")