Re: mailmerge

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?
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Received on Wed Dec 7 00:35:16 2005