Re: Difficulties in merging...

If you send me a sample ABW and CSV file off-list, I'll give it a try
tonight. I promise not to retain/use any confidential information,
etc. I'm only interested in the test case.

Thanks.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 5:50 PM, zed <zed@zed.net.nz> wrote:
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> "Dominic Lachowicz" <domlachowicz@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:36 PM, zed <zed@zed.net.nz> wrote:
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>> Platform = LinuxMINT Abiword = v2.4.6 Gnumeric - v1.8.2
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> [snip]
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>> The full path of the csv file is: /home/zed/Documents/Clients/G H
>> I/HKI/Form Letters/Christmas/Xmas-HKI.csv
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>> The full path of the Form letter is: home/zed/Documents/Clients/G H
>> I/HKI/Form Letters/Christmas/Xmasmerge.abw
>>
>> In my reading of the Help file I should, therefore, type the following
>> in a terminal:
>>
>> zed@zed-desktop ~ $ abiword -m /home/zed/Documents/Clients/G H
>> I/HKI/Form Letters/Christmas/Xmas-HKI.csv -p
>> /home/zed/Documents/Clients/G H I/HKI/Form
>> Letters/Christmas/Xmasmerge.abw
>>
>> but when I do so the following error message is generated
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>> AbiWord: Error importing file. [H] Could not print
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> [snip]
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>> > First guess is that you aren't escaping the spaces in the filename, so
>> > the shell thinks that they're individual arguments.
>> >
>> > Copy a few files to a directory without any spaces in its name and try
>> > again. Let us know how it goes.
>
> Thank you for a very prompt response.
>
> I have done as you suggested but still an error message:-( However, it is
> different, this time. See below
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> zed@zed-desktop ~ $ abiword -m
> /home/zed/Documents/Clients/GHI/HKI/Form_Letters/
> Christmas/Xmas-HKI.csv -p /home/zed/Documents/Clients/GHI/HKI/
> Form_Letters/Christmas/Xmasmerge.abw
> Error: no file to print!
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> Zed
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