Picture mail-merge

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Jason Clinton wrote:
> Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>> I need to do a "mail-merge" type process that includes pictures and text 
>> (nametags for the annual neighborhood progressive dinner).
>> 
> 
> If anything can do it, it will be Open Office. I openned up version 
> 1.0.3 and inserted some graphics in the some spreadsheets and tried to 
> merge but it crashed.
> 
> I've read that 1.1beta is much more stable. I would grab that one. The 
> reason I think it will be able to do it is this: the OO.o file format is 
> native XML. The images are stored in cells and in writter documents via 
> an XML equivalent of HTML <IMG> tag. Theoretically, the XML:IMG tag 
> would be imported during the mail merge.
> 
> Thus the power of markup is harnessed.

Hmm...I've been looking at Open Office (1.0.1, as shipped with RH 8.0), 
but I was looking at the word processor, not the spreadsheet.

I hadn't thought about trying to import an XML tag as part of the mail 
merge, but that sounds like the most likely solution so-far (at least 
without resorting to a windows based solution).

I'll let everyone know if I figure out a way to (easily) do this on linux.

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net