Re: Fancy mailmerge with pictures

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:44 PM, <jp@unac.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Thank you so much for being interested in including an 'image mailmerge'
> feature into Abiword.
>
> Abiword has such a light footprint it has fantastic possibilities as an 'on
> the fly' webserver report writer for database driven websites.  If it could
> support images like this as well it would be really great (for me :-) but
> actually I think a lot of webby developers and end users would find this a
> great feature and would open up some new possibilites for Abiword uses.
>
> Cheers,
>

Hi JP,
        AbiWord is already being used for exactly that purpose. One of
our core developers (uwog@uwog.net) has implemented this for his
company betterbe.com.

Contact them if you're interested in licensing some of their
solutions. (They already embed images in docs on the fly for sales
reps as they speak to customers. It's real-time solution.)

See this blog post i wrote about the use of the abicommand plugin.

http://msevior.livejournal.com/8055.html

Cheers!

Martin

> JP
>
>
> Quoting Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> HI JP,
>>        Thanks for your post. This is definitely an interesting idea
>> but unfortunately we don't support it right now.
>>
>> I'll look to see I can slip in this feature for the linux build before
>> the 2.8 release.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:40 AM,  <jp@unac.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi abiword users,
>>>
>>> OK this is my first post :-)
>>>
>>> I would like to generate property brochures using abiword.
>>>
>>> I have no problem generating a mailmerge 'form brochure' with fields for
>>> substitution with text fields but I would like to know whether it is
>>> possible to provide 'links' to images.
>>>
>>> Ideally I would like to generate brochures not only with text but also
>>> with
>>> images of the property.
>>>
>>> Once generated I would convert them to pdf brochures which would sit on
>>> my
>>> webserver for my customers to view or download.
>>>
>>> Currently I generate pdf brochures programmatically using the FPDF PHP
>>> class
>>> library but really this is hard work if I want to change my template.  It
>>> would be much easier to have an abiword template that supported images as
>>> mailmerge data.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how I could achieve this with abiword.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> JP.
>>>
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