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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