Re: mailmerge

sum1_lists@yahoo.com wrote:

>
> Lawyerless Solutions wrote:
>
>>
>> Having spent significant parts of two days attempting to the merge
>> and print phase of mailmerge to produce output, I reluctantly must
>> give up and ask for your help.
>> As far as I can tell, I have correctly created the data source
>> (divlist.csv saved as plain text) and the document template
>> (intro.abw). These were done via Windows XP GUI. For the
>> merge/print, I created a DOS batch file that included the following
>> command to execute Abiword:
>>
>> start lawyerless\abisuite2\abiword\bin\abiword.exe -m divlist.csv
>> p out.txt intro.abw
>>
>> Nothing happens output-wise. The problem as I see it, unless a bug
>> exists, must be in the way the second parameter is coded. Please
>> explain more clearly the second sentence of the third paragraph under
>> "Printing the merged result" in the mailmerge documentation,
>> especially the last clause of that sentence: "...all the usual
>> potential values for -p work, if you want to print directly to your
>> printer or filter or anything else."
>
>
> It seems like you're trying to print to a file, which I don't believe
> will work. The -p switch is expecting a printer name (as reported in
> the control panel), so you'd have to use something like:
>
> abiword.exe -m divlist.csv -p PrinterName intro.abw
>
> or, if you're using the default printer:
>
> abiword.exe -m divlist.csv -p - intro.abw
>
> Now, if you do indeed want to print to a file instead of a printer,
> you may have to set up a special PCL or postscript printer in Windows.
> Is that your intent?
>
Please note that if you install PDFCreator, from
http://sf.net/projects/pdfcreator/ , it creates a "virtual printer" that
can be used to merge print to PDF.

-- 
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
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