Re: mailmerge

Make sure that HPLJ is the long name of the printer. Also, try
PDFCreator - if any printer works, it will. The .ps (PostScript) output
option is only available on Unix (without PDFCreator), sorry for any
confusion.

I will give this a shot myself with PDFCreator when I get the chance
unless I hear back that it worked.

Ryan

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Lawyerless Solutions wrote:

> I appreciate your prompt reply, but no matter what I try, nothing goes
> from Abiword to my printer (HP Laserjet). At your suggestion I have
> changed the second parameter to: -p HPLJ ..where HPLJ is the
> PrinterName recorded in Control Panel. Everything from every
> application prints properly, and that includes Abiword output from
> other than mailmerge.
> As to printing to files, the Abiword mailmerge description mentions
> printing to files including the numbering scheme (starting with 0) for
> "one .ps file for every set of values. . ." However, I don't wish to
> belabor the point, because my only intent that is absolutely necessary
> is simply to print directly to the printer.
> Can you somehow provide me with, or point me to, a sample or printout
> of an actual merged result printing? I have checked and rechecked to
> make sure that the .csv and .abw files going into the printmerge are
> properly referenced and internally correct.
> Any suggestions from anyone would be most appreciated. - Les
> ===================
> ,At 09:28 PM 12/6/2005, you wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
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