Ok not a bad idea.

Most of the docs are contracts etc with images in them etc and usually a few 
pages long. The end user ideally would adjust the doc/template with any new 
changes and upload to the system and we would use that when doing the mail 
merge.

I found this and is a good example of what l am trying to do

http://tomasvarsavsky.com/2009/04/04/simple-word-document-templating-using-ruby-and-xml/

Michael



On 02/02/2011, at 1:10 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes wrote:

> It depends on the file template but at minimum you can use openoffice CLI to 
> connect to a running headless OO.org instance (or a cluster of them in the 
> cloud) to perform a conversion to a more maleable format and then back again. 
> I'd have to dig up the code for specifics, but it was a pretty fun piece of 
> tech to experiment with (and test!)
> 
> Josh Price wrote:
>> 
>> On 02/02/2011, at 1:03 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes wrote:
>> 
>>> you might try using headless openoffice.org to make the changes.
>> 
>> That sounds like an interesting approach. How does this work exactly?
>> 
>> Josh
>> 
> 
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