From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 10:32:50 EST
It can do printing from the command line, at least on unix.
abiword --print file.ps file.abw
abiword --print "|lpr" file.abw
where "|lpr" is the | character (pipe) followed by your printing
command, which is probably lpr, lpr -p MyEsponStylus or something like
that. To get it to print more than one copy, put it in a shell-script
loop.
Right now, data merging isn't possible.
Dom
On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 10:27 AM, Mike Hudson wrote:
> I have an old character mode database app that I want to print nicely
> formatted docs from.
> I imagine the easiest way to do this is to find a WP that can merge
> data
> from the db with a nice template doc. I'd like to print docs via the
> WP from
> the command line: telling it to print document 'x' (the WP template)
> merging-in data either from a separate file, or from cmd line
> arguments,
> specifying which printer to use, how many copies to print etc.
> The WP must print docs quickly on demand. Perhaps it could run
> continuously
> in the background just waiting for commands. Alternatively it might
> fire up
> a new session quickly, perhaps in some specially fast background mode,
> for
> each doc. What I can't do is to wait an age for a gargantuan suite to
> start
> up to print each doc.
> If AbiWord can do this, I'd be grateful for any pointers to get me
> started
> after I install. If it can't, any other suggestions would be
> appreciated!
> Thanks, Mike.
>
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