Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...

 Alex ,

I agree, but Sam asked for a non macro solution, the rest (binary stream 
storing etc...) can been done. We  never use images stored in a 
database, we simply change the links pointing to images stored on a 
fileserver.

Greetz

Fernand
> Le 09/02/2012 19:03, Fernand Vanrie a écrit :
>
> Hi Fernand,
>
> > I did a bit more testing, now i can store en review a image in a
> > database, using a Form and a image control, but there is still the
> > problem that there is nothing like a "imagefield" to recall and show the
> > stored image date when running a "merge" operation.
>
> AFAIK, the only way to do this is to use a macro to read the binary 
> stream of the image, and then find some way of converting it to 
> something that can be inserted into a document and displayed...
>
> I remember Frank Schoenheit mentioning that this was problematic 
> indeed even with OOo.
>
> Alex


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