Re: Problems with Mailmerge in 2.6.3

Thanks for the clue. This line seems to work:

abiword -t ps -o output.ps -m cover.csv FaxHeader.abw

Pity that neither the documentation nor the help function are up to date

Many Thanks

All the best

Andrew
Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> Andrew Myers wrote:
>
>> I have followed the instruction in the help section to do a Mail Merge
>> from the command line. Unfortunately it does not seem to work as
>> described.
>>
>> I created a csv file and a template file and then executed from the
>> command line:
>>
>> $ abiword -m cover.csv -p cover.ps FaxHeader.abw
>>
>> ** (abiword:3311): WARNING **: Could not GPAReference Printer to cover.ps
>>
>> /usr/bin/lpr: The printer or class was not found.
>>
>> If however I execute:
>>
>> $ abiword -m cover.csv -p Oki FaxHeader.abw
>>
>> ** (abiword:2860): WARNING **: Could not GPAReference Printer to Oki
>>
>> but it prints Ok with the correct data in it.
>>
>> If I execute:
>>
>> $ abiword -m cover.csv FaxHeader.abw
>>
>> (abiword:3079): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1741: instance
>> `0x86a5038' has no handler with id `2460'
>>
>> (abiword:3079): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1741: instance
>> `0x86a5038' has no handler with id `2466'
>>
>> All of which seems to indicate that I must be doing something wrong,
>> can anyone make any suggestions as to what?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Andrew
>> Mandriva 2008.1, Abiword 2.6.3, Linux 2.6.24
>>
> The ability to produce .ps files directly is not available in 2.6.x,
> IIRC. I believe you can do a "conversion" - that is, abiword -m
> cover.csv FaxHeader.abw --to=abw output.abw - which will produce an ABW
> file with the merge results, or the -p Oki option which you've already
> discovered. The two gsignal warnings are bogus and will be fixed in the
> next version, I believe, and you might want to file the other warning
> you received as a bug at http://bugzilla.abisource.com.
>
> Thanks - hope this helps!
>
>
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Received on Tue Jul 8 11:13:56 2008