-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/07 01:30, Bill wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 11:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 10/04/07 11:27, Bill wrote: >>> On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 06:33 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: >>>> * Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Oct 04 06:21 -0500]: >>>>> Hi folks, >>>>> >>>>> I've got a problem with Open Office Writer. I've done a mail >>>>> merge that produces a ton of .sxw files. These need to be >>>>> faxed in bulk, but of course none of the fax programs can >>>>> handle bulk input. No prob. I wrote a looping script using efax >>>>> which uses ps/tiff input and that works. But I can't find a >>>>> utility to convert OOo .swx files to ps. Any suggestions? >>>>> I've googled my fingers off. >>>> .sxw would be the old Star Office format files so modern tools would >>>> probably work with .odt files which are Open Document Format (ODF). >>>> Other than opening the files in OOo and printing to a file. which >>>> results in a .ps output, there doesn't seem to be an outside converter. >>>> >>>> - Nate >> >>> Yes this is an older version of OO but like you say there >>> isn't an external filter such as pdf2ps. The problem though >>> remains the same - bulk conversion - so the export to pdf and >>> print to file .ps options are useless because they're done one >>> at a time. It would take me a week to get the job done. >>> >>> It's a definite shortcoming in OO. >> AbiWord might be able to do what you want. > > No I checked. There is a difference between internal file formats > and exportable or print-to-file formats. This secondary support > can be applied only to one file at a time. It's a time consuming > and error prone process when you're looking at a massive mail > merge. You just know you're going to get 10-20% errors - typos, > omissions, misnaming etc. <shudder>.
Typos when running a mail merge?????????? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHBlMrS9HxQb37XmcRAnLRAKChnWzXyBVpfvWCROUsAJsTMjkIdACfSv1o mvVsC5Dp14AQmYLqNUBhZKk= =kJ0M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
