Hi Christian, My husband is a lawyer in Langenfeld (Rhine-area near Duesseldorf) Germany.
We had the same problem migrating my office to GNU/Linux and OOo. He wrote a prgram (with german UI). You can find a first beta-version under canzeley.de. The code is released under GPLv3. The main task of the program is taking data from a (MySQL-)database and put them into a writer-document. Regards Mechtilde Christian Einfeldt schrieb: > 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. -- Dipl. Ing. Mechtilde Stehmann ## http://de.openoffice.org ## Ansprechpartnerin für die deutschsprachige QA ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris ## Meine Seite http://www.mechtilde.de ## PGP encryption welcome! Key-ID: 0x53B3892B --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
