Newb - can photoshop scripts do this ...?

Let's say I have a newsletter that goes out once every four months.
On the bottom of each newsletter I want to put a "personal message", for example, "Dear Dave,   How are you doing.  Hope you like our latest newsletter.  Thanks, ..."
There are about twenty people.  Dear Dave, Dear George, Dear Lucy, etc.
So basically I want photoshop to open the newsletter and paste the appropriate text at a certain position near the bottom.  Then send it to the printer or save it out as a pdf.
Is it possible?
(I am using CS4)

Basically I see no terrible problems with the task; Printing might be an issue depending on the platform, but the pdf creation should not be too hard.
Check out »Creating data-driven graphics« in the Help.

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