Get Fields from Address Book

In the Automator action "Get Contact Information" there are quite a few fields which are not available. Ex. 'Spouse' & 'Children'. Does anyone know an action or Applescript that can make those fields available for export to a text file?
  Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

I believe that I answer that question in a phone call message today to person who asked that, but in case that was a different customer, let me say yes, you can print your labels with both contact and company name. You want to download and run RollCall Directory, and select the Label feature. From the menubar, select the Labels menu, and then the Label Content submenu, and then the Custom menu item. You will see the Custom Label Content window, with the Macros used to display your labels. For example, the default address label is:
/NAME
/ADDRESS
This set of macros tells the label to print out one line of name (be it company name or persons name, depending on if the contact is company or person) followed by the address. You want to change it to:
/COMPANY
/FULL
/ADDRESS
The label will then display the company name, the contact person's full name and the address. Take a look at some of the example address formats, to see how other macros are used.
I hope this helps,
Sincerely,
Steve Sheets
Midnight Mage Software
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