I remember writing an application in PS. That was my first job, in IT support, over 20 years ago. I was asked to prepare employee cards and I found doing thous

I remember writing an application in PS. That was my first job, in IT support, over 20 years ago. I was asked to prepare employee cards and I found doing thousands of these manually was a waste of time. So I wrote a script in Perl to download employee data from database, write it to file and then merge it with a PostScript program. The PostScript program would read the list of employees and format cards, 8 cards per A4 page. The names would be automatically scaled in PostScript so that they fit the predefined space nicely and the background would include nice procedurally generated pattern that would otherwise be very difficult to get. It is fun when your application actually runs on the printer!