Version: (using Devel) OS: Linux Installed from: Compiled sources kaddressbook should be able to create letters to contacts in odf format. you could do it like this: have a directory for odf template-files (you could have subdirs according to different $LANG values). the odf format would allow you to create the template files using oowriter and just writing something like %ownaddress% %address% etc in places where you want them to be put. then you'd just have to unzip the template file, change the file content.xml using sed (replacing %address% with the address taken from kaddressbook etc), zipping it to some temporary location and opening it in oowriter I wrote a bash script for that purpose, that I'll give you (btw: you should make shure that the replacements don't contain a / or something that would confuse sed)
Created attachment 37110 [details] bash-script that applies sed to the content of an odf file it unzipps $1 to a temporary location, replaces $2 by $3 in the content.xml file (using sed) and zipps it to $4
Hej, the clean (and IMHO correct) solution would be to use the mailmerge feature of KWord to create such letters. I guess the current mailmerge version in KWord doesn't work with the new Akonadi based address books, but that is something else to fix. Nothing KAddressBook is responsible for. Ciao, Tobias
I don't think you understood me right - I'm not talking about sending the same letter to multiple people, I mean you should be able to right-click on an address, select "send letter" (like you can select an email address and choose to create an email with the selected address as recipient) It should then open kword or oowriter or whatever is used to open odt files like email addresses open the mailclient with the selected address For one single letter, you really shouldn't have to start the wordprocessor manually and go through multiple dialogs just to get that one address out of the database... I mentioned the templates because you could have different kinds of letters (personal letters, business letters that have the company logo etc.) so you should have something like ~/Documents/OpenOfficeTemplates/en_EN/business_letter.odt (or is the file extension different for templates? like word had ".dot"?)
Created attachment 37115 [details] bash-script that applies sed to the content of an odt file multiple times using this script you can replace all placeholders in just one call. e.g. odt_sed.sh <templatefile> <destinationfile> "%name%" "John Doe" "%zipcode%" "1337" ...