From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 08:51:46 EST
Hi Alison,
Would you mind filing a bug at bugzilla.abisource.com
and also include the CSV file? It'd help a bunch.
Thanks,
Dom
--- Alison Russell <alison_at_rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> 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>
> > Name,Address,Postcode
> Mum,hoime,5158
> paul,work,2600
> alli,home,2620
> Someone,wherever,2601
>
> ATTACHMENT part 3 application/x-abiword
> ATTACHMENT part 4 application/postscript
> ATTACHMENT part 5 application/postscript
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