[REBOL] Re: Replacing placeholders?
From: carlos:lorenz::gmail at: 7-Aug-2007 15:46
Hi Kai,
Maybe this old mail from Tim may help you. Take a look:
>>>
Here's an example of dynamically composing a PDF document
using records:
;; ======================================================
do %pdf-maker.r
records: [
[first_name "Tim" last_name "Johnson"]
[first_name "Gabriele" last_name "Santilli"]
]
build-page: func[record[block!]][
blue-font: [FONT Courier 4.23 0.0.200]
black-font: [FONT Helvetica 4.23 0.0.0]
;; Place any code that you want evaluated inside of parenthesis
[ ;; Each page must be a block
textbox[
LEFT ALIGN
(blue-font) "First Name: "
(black-font) (record/first_name) newline
(blue-font) "Last Name: "
(black-font) (record/last_name) newline
]
]
]
;; make block for the document
document: make block! length? records
;; Process records
foreach record records[
;; Use 'compose to evaluate the code and data
;; inside of the parens in the 'page block
page: compose/deep build-page record
;; append as a block
append/only document page
]
write/binary %pdf-test.pdf layout-pdf document
;; ======================================================
It's my hope that someone else may find this as helpful
as it was for me in doing it.
And as always - thanks to Gabrielle for his good work.
cheers
Tim
>>>>>
2007/8/7, Kai Peters <kpeters-otaksoft.com>:
>
> Hi ~
>
> I am trying to use pdfmaker to perform a mail-merge mailout.
>
> I have created a file holding the dialect code for the letter template:
>
> thankyou-letter: [
> [ ; the one & only page
> page size 216 279 ; US letter
>
> textbox [
> { Dear $NAME, thank you so much for your generous donation.} p
> { And some more text - maybe the same placeholder multiple times
> $NAME ...}
> ]
> ]
> ]
> All this up to creating the PDF works well.
>
> I am struggling with this:
> How can i replace all instances of placeholders like $NAME in
> thankyou-letter with the
> mailmerge variables?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Kai
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