Re: ambitions of Abi-word (fwd)

Keeping it onlist so answer get archived.

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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:29:26 +0100
From: Custodis <Custodis@zonnet.nl>
To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: ambitions of Abi-word

Hi Alan,

Alan Horkan wrote:

>
>>I would like to be able to mail merge with data in a spreadsheet like
>>gnumeric. (MS Word is able to merge with any given map in Excel and has
>>an excellent user interface to filter data from Excel to generate
>>letters. This is a feature I can not do without.) As far as I know this
>>not yet possible with Abi and Gnumeric. And I wonder If it is one of the
>>goals. If not, Abi isn’t an option for me.
>>
>>
>
>gnumeric -> CSV
>CSV -> Abiword mail merge
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This is not a working option for me. I use the mail merge option dayly,
further more the speadsheet is rather complex.

>it might be possible to do more than that, but I haven't used the feature
>myself
>
>
>
>>ImageMagick? Thanks for the hint. I’ll look in to it.
>>
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ImageMagick is not availeble in the plugin. SVG format isn't supported.
I can however export SVG to PNG or JPEG so in this case there is a
workable solution for me.

Thanks, Robby
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Received on Thu Nov 17 16:48:01 2005