On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:05 +0100, mike scott wrote: > My wife has a need to produce certificate documents for some of her > pupils. She was making these from a small number of OOo writer > templates, editing by hand to insert correct names and dates. However, > even such a simple procedure proved fraught for a non-computer person, > and was too error-prone and time-consuming. > > As a workaround, I've made a perl script to edit a template's > content.xml component directly, taking input from a simple Tk gui. This > works, but it's a singularly nasty and inelegant hack. > > Is there any easy way of building an OOo document directly under > program control? Something allowing /easy/ programmatic control instead > of gui control of the document components? > > Any ideas welcome; thanks! >
Have you tried using a Calc spreadsheet as a addressbook? Seems to me that this along with File > New > Labels and picking one of the certificate templates would do the trick. See http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/writer2_EN.html and give it a shot. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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