Re: Mail-merge in FM

[Peter Gold <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Becky:

I think you may be remembering a unix script that might have had  
something to do with mifmuncher.

You're really talking about database publishing, in a limited sense for  
this particular application. There's information on database publishing  
in FM, in the one of the online PDF manuals, either "Customizing  
FrameMaker Products," or "MIF Reference."

If this is simply a mail-merge process for letters and you're no longer  
on unix, you probably could save lots of time and effort by using MS  
Word. On unix, perhaps OpenOffice offers mail-merge.

Regards,

Peter Gold
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On Oct 8, 2004, at 11:28 AM, Becky Swanson wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Many moons ago, we used to do a type of mail-merge with FM to do  
> personalized
> letters in bulk. I had a programmer working for me that set it up, so  
> I don't
> know the process or how it was done. We were on about v.3.x on Unix,  
> at the
> time. Does FM still do this, or do you need a FrameScript to do it?  
> I've seen
> some products for PDF files that merge names/addresses onto letters  
> and other
> documents. I think one of them was made by Appligent. Does anyone have  
> any
> personal experience with such a task?
>
> Thanks,
> Becky
>
>
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