Getting rid of Word requirement.. with solution (not OpenOffice)

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berhart

Posted 12/4/2009 4:11:42 AM

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Something I noticed after installing Point is that it requires Microsoft Word to create and print custom forms.

AbiWord can pull data from 3 file types, and creating a plug-in for other formats is easy:

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

Here is information for embedding AbiWord directly into an application:

http://www.abisource.com/wiki/AbiWord_SDK

Any chance this, or another option can be added in the future?

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berhart

Posted 8/5/2010 4:04:05 PM

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This is still something that we would like to see implemented. We have migrated to Google Apps Premiere and while we plan on keeping Microsoft Office internally for the time-being it would be nice to give users an option.

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FinnyD

Posted 8/16/2011 2:17:00 PM

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I agree. Custom forms & Point really needs to be free from the requirement to has MS Word installed. Any work being done on this?

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