Re: Contacts printing

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:56:02PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> I managed to sync my mobile phone to the PC with opensync, so I copied the
>> Contacts into the file system.
>> 
>> Then I fetched them with Evolution, but I don't like the way it prints them
>> out, and it doesn't seem to be customizable.
>> 
>> If anyone out there has experience with the matter, I wish a way to print the
>> Contacts (about 300) that I have stored in a directory, one per file.
>> Thunderbird does not seem to work: it can't import them.



"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:

> One contact record per file???  Sounds like something windows would do.



It's just the way opensync works when using the file-sync plugin.


> I think you just need to write a script in your favorite language to
> parse the files and format it to your liking then just print it out.
>
> In what languages can you program?  (bash, python, perl, ada, C,
> Fortran...)?



Every file is like this:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:;Oliver Hardy ;;;
TEL;CELL:3391234567
TEL;VOICE;HOME:081123567
FN:Oliver Hardy
END:VCARD

, so the major problem would be sorting: how to sort whole items like that?
*Is* it possible, and any idea of how?

Thanks
Rodolfo