From: Alison Russell (alison_at_rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 08:31:12 EST
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the advice re mail merge, and the link to the HOWTO. I was
playing around with it and discovered what I "think" is a bug.
Using gnumeric to make a .csv file worked fine (attached)
Then inserting mailmerge fields in abiword worked fine (attached)
Then Tools->MailMerge followed by print to file only gave the first page
(ie, first row of csv file, one file) (attached)
This does not make MailMerge any faster than handtyping each envelope.
Then I tried the command line (from the HOWTO):
abiword -m /tmp/abi.csv -p mergeme.ps /tmp/mailmerge.abw
This produced a Postscript file that gv would not display (gave error
message). As above, this also only produced one file, whereas the HOWTO
said there should have been multiple files created (depending on how
many rows of raw data).
Abiword version 2.0.1 on Debian, Gnome 2.
(This took me hours to build myself, from the abisource page!)
Is this a bug? If so, would you like me to report it to bugzilla?
Or is this something you are aware needs fixing? Or (perhaps more
likely) something I am doing wrong?
Thanks,
Alli
-- Alison Russell <alison_at_rustcorp.com.au>
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