-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/07 11:11, Bill wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-10 at 10:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> 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?????????? > > No not from the merge itself, automation is the way out of the > problem. The but I guarantee you if you had to load 500 .sxw > files one at a time, convert them and then print them to file > as .ps files you'd make mistakes. Hey try it at home. Count the > clicks involved saving a single .sxw file as a postscript file. > Sorry it defeats the entire purpose of a mail merge. It's like > flying across two continents first class in a 747 and then > crawling home from the airport on your hands and knees.
AbiWord has a CLI interface. If it has the proper capabilities, a simple bash script eliminates all your typos. If the CLI is inadequate to the task, a plugin might solve the problem. Anyway, the AbiWord docs and mailing list is where you next need travel. - -- 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) iD8DBQFHBoc4S9HxQb37XmcRAj0LAKDqh+Viw33DxXvfiC8qSLpoD9epHwCg6E2k rkp4iU4hCdxLm1OovN2EKIg= =bjnf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
