Richard Hayes - Nada Marketing wrote:
I need to buy / create a document management system that would create
government reports for energy usage.
All the reports use the same format and at least 75% of the content is 'boiler
plate', the text does not change.
What is required is a 'super mail merge' where the I can enter the contact,
location and usage data etc into a form and then the document is merged to
create a 'pretty' new document.
I just discovered a simple, fast and easy templating tool for python, called
invoque.
It is designed for HTML/XML templating, but will generate any kind of text by
substitution, e.g.
<head>
<title>${title}</title>
</head>
<http://evoque.gizmojo.org/>
If you aren't using it for HTML, you do not need to install the qpy
package that the author recommends for safe quoting.
A python script to mail-merge from a database or CSV file into templates
would be very easy to write if you have python skilz.
cheers
rickw
--
_________________________________
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to
add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
