Phil Longstaff wrote:
On July 21, 2009 04:35:17 pm Paul Kruger wrote:
NOTE TO DEVELOPERS...the program is great EXCEPT for poor invoice
capabilities which makes in not-usable for most businesses. There is no
way I can see any accountant trying to struggle with designing and printing
invoices with Gnucash unless he is also a graduate computer programmer.
Daisy the secretary will be totally lost.
Re your suggestion: someone has done what you suggest. 2.3.3 (maybe 2.3.2 as
well, I can't remember), an unstable version that will be released tomorrow or
Thursday, contains 1) webkit replacement for gtkhtml as the report display
engine 2) work by Chris Dennis to define an html/css template for an invoice
that includes embedded SCM code to insert the data. Since I'm the 2.3.X/2.4
release engineer, I've worked with him a bit to get it included in the release
so that people can try it. However, it's not my area of interest. If you
want to download it (I'm not sure if/how it can run in parallel with a current
2.2.X installation on windows) and test it out and provide feedback, I'm sure
Chris would be delighted.
There are instructions on the wiki at
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=Custom_Reports_Using_Eguile
eguile templates are still non-trivial to change because they are a
mixture of HTML and Scheme code. But with care it's possible to make
changes to the HTML without having to learn much about Scheme.
I've tested eguile-based reports on Gnucash 2.2.6 and 2.2.9: they work
but without the benefit of Webkit and CSS the layout is not as pretty.
With unstable versions 2.3.2 and later (and the upcoming 2.4 release),
the results are much better.
cheers
Chris
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Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
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