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.
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