Mail merge

Chris Davies <[email protected]> Fri, 02 Nov 2018 23:03:35 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.editors.abiword.user
Message-ID <1541199815.3900452.1563987248.5EBDA200@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Hello

I'm trying to get mail merge working in Abiword, and not having much luck.

I tried following the instructions in the manual at:

https://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/howto/howtomailmerge.html

But they don't work on Abiword 3.0.2. 

I get this message:

> The '--print' option has been removed as of AbiWord 2.8. You can achieve the desired 
> behavior using AbiWord's command-line conversion tools and then piping the output to a  
> print spooler. Eg: 'abiword --to=ps --to-name=fd://1 myfile.txt | lpr'

if I enter 

>abiword -m mergeleme.csv mergeletter2.abw 

at the terminal, Abiword starts and loads my template letter, but all I see is the field names.

If I go to the Tools menu, and click Mail Merge, I get the first record from my CSV.

Where am I going wrong?
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