> A friend of mine has an application where he needs to do a mail merge.
> The  kicker is that each letter must have a diff signature based on the
> contents  of a merge field.  The signature is a graphic file and there
> are over a  thousand of them.

I am pretty sure that GNU Enterprise reports will do this right now today.
 Certainly it can do conditional mail merges.  Would need to know more
about environment, but this shouldnt be a huge task.

> He may be willing to pay a consulting fee.  At this time he is using
> WINDOWS  this could be a good time to start him on linux if Wordstar
> will do this, he  has been unable to do it using MSWORD, however if
> wordstar can't do it but  you know how to do it in word would still want
> to talk to you.

Im replying on list as others might be interested in the status of what
GNUe Reports can do, but will cc you as well.

-Derek