[plug] Building a GUI app to generate a wordprocessed letter

Andrew Pamment pamment at iinet.net.au
Mon Mar 10 18:31:52 WST 2003


On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:35 pm, Peter J. Nicol wrote:
> >  I can do the MySQL database. I can do a front end for entering data into
> > it. What I don't know how to do is feed the important fields into a
> > decent WP so it generates a letter.
>
> It is possible to write it out straight to postscript, with a bit of
> coding, and print it directly to a printer.  Depends on how good a
> postscript hacker you are, or are willing to become.  Sidestep the
> wordprocessor entirely.  Unless you want it in a wordproc format for later
> editing.

If open office uses XML, wouldn't it be possible to write up a generic 
application in OO then open the output file with a text editor and see how it 
works and create your script to change the generic data with the results from 
the SQL queries?

Andrew



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