Re: Fancy mailmerge with pictures

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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Received on Fri Sep 11 05:04:15 2009