Abiword Mail Merge 2.8.2 help or suggestions needed

Dear Abiword User Group,

I can't seem to get abiword mailmerge working.

I was hoping to be able to use abiword mailmerge as a 'headless' (I have a text only vps) pdf document generator for a php application.

I've set up a simple test case -

From the command line I have tried:

abiword -m test.csv -p test.ps mergetest.abw

but I get the error message:

The '--print' option has been removed as of AbiWord 2.8.

In fact I don't actually need to print anything all I need is the merged document which I hope to be able to turn into a pdf document again calling a headless abiword.

eg

abiword --to=PDF -o pi_template_simple.pdf pi_template_simple.abw

Anyway, does mailmerge work in abiword 2.8.2 and if not are there any plans to fix it.

Also, why does the mailmerge need the -p option at all? Just generating individual merged .abw documents from the csv file would be great. Printing could take place at a later step at the users discretion.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Regards,

JP.

abiword 2.8.2 on my linux vps.

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
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Received on Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:15:50 +0000 (UTC)