hi, I am a lawyer in San Francisco, and a long-time OOo user. However, for all of this years, I have been limping along with my OOo use without automated document assembly, because I thought that there is no such thing for OOo as with Microsoft Word. I am very happy with my use of OOo, and would not consider going back to Microsoft Word; however, one of the key things stalling adoption of OOo in law offices is the lack of integration with third party software such as HotDocs, as referenced below in this question from another lawyer.
I run Linux in my own private practice, but use Oo.o for my word processing. I do maintain a separate XP partition and have a licensed copy of HotDocs, but wonder if you know of any way to tie Oo.o in to HotDocs, or if you know of any open source document assembly solutions? I just did a google search for such document assembly, and found this product: http://www.zumesoft.com/Articles/WordFusion/Features.aspx Has anyone used it? Any thoughts? Here's what lawyers need to be able to do: We produce reams and reams of paper documents in lawsuits. Many of these lawsuits have similar elements. Automated document assembly speeds up the production of these documents, such as a Demand for Production of Documents (RPD), by inserting certain key words throughout the document, such as parties, lawyers' names, and so on. This data is pulled from fields entered into the automated document assembly materials when a case is opened, so that repetitive data need be entered only once for the life of the case (not perfect, but fairly good). Any help with the above would be appreciated! Thanks in advance. -- Christian Einfeldt, Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
