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We snail mail out letters with membership cards attached.

We have set up a message template to produce the letters as pdfs, but I am having trouble getting a satisfactory address to display.

Most people just have an entry in the Street_address field, but others also have details in Addt'l Address 1  and Addt'l Address 2 fields, so I need those fields included in the pdf letters.  However, if they are empty they display as blank lines.  The postal service doesn't like that, and we lose our NFP bulk mail discount.

When creating address labels, Addt'l Address 1  and Addt'l Address 2 fields are suppressed if empty so that there are no blank lines on the address label.

Is there a way to do that for pdf letters?

I have tried to use some smarty commands to only include the fields and the line breaks if they are contain data, but that does not seem to work.  I just get the smarty commands embedded amongst the address lines (that could be because my smarty skills are very limited I must admit)

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I was hoping for a solution that I could implement though the Civi UI as I have no coding skills, but I will include this info when I put in an request to our Civi developer.

I would like to be able to say that I will ask them to submit it as an addition for core, but funds are very tight at the moment. (A familiar refrain I am sure)  I understand the rationale of getting it into core rather than having to re-apply after an upgrade but I just can't fund it at the moment. 

I haven't gone as far as adding to core but do have an updated version of Michael's module

https://github.com/eileenmcnaughton/tokens/blob/master/address.inc

Changes
1) uses api v3 / assumes class loader
2) only calls api if required fields not present & doesn't require unecessary fields to be returned
3) sits within my civitoken wrapper - this is because I like to move tokens between sites without having a whole module for each mobile set of tokens - probably civix will make this approach obsolete at some point - http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,23869.msg102017.html