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The first question, I would ask is how complicated are the documents you will be creating (or plan to create in the future)? If it's simple letters, mail merge could definitely do the job. I think, as long as it's a single page, no repeating sections and only fields then you're good (although there are all kinds of tricks that will give you the appearance of simple lists with some work). BTW if you're planning to run the mail merge code in UNIX/Linux, you'll probably need to do it from another language besides progress if the code you looked at uses com-handles then it won't work on UNIX/Linux. You could open .docx files in openoffice/libreoffice and there are also other converters but compatibility isn't perfect and in some cases it's far from it. You could create the openoffice files directly (the xml files wrapped in a zip), I'd be happy to show you but it's alot of dirty work. How soon do you need it? if it's a few month or so, maybe it's possible and in the meantime you could use the docx library. .docx and .odt files are very similar in essence so it's not an impossible thing to do. BTW if you create the files in the free docxfactory project, it will be extremely fast. You could create a file in 0.02 seconds. Plus it has a ton of features like support for a extensive list of 80, 1D and 2D barcodes and you could also create Excel files, not just Word files. Good luck and please share your findings.
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