Can AbiWord do cmd-line data merging & printing?

From: Mike Hudson (mch@harrington-NLT.co.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 10:27:32 EST

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    I have an old character mode database app that I want to print nicely
    formatted docs from.
    I imagine the easiest way to do this is to find a WP that can merge data
    from the db with a nice template doc. I'd like to print docs via the WP from
    the command line: telling it to print document 'x' (the WP template)
    merging-in data either from a separate file, or from cmd line arguments,
    specifying which printer to use, how many copies to print etc.
    The WP must print docs quickly on demand. Perhaps it could run continuously
    in the background just waiting for commands. Alternatively it might fire up
    a new session quickly, perhaps in some specially fast background mode, for
    each doc. What I can't do is to wait an age for a gargantuan suite to start
    up to print each doc.
    If AbiWord can do this, I'd be grateful for any pointers to get me started
    after I install. If it can't, any other suggestions would be appreciated!
    Thanks, Mike.

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