LaTeX is a very powerful typesetting system. It is layered on top of TeX which is very complete typesetting engine. LaTeX adds typographical design frameworks on top of TeX, which allows for the creation of professionally typeset documents, from simple letters to full books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX At Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:20:55 -0700 Mark Iams-McGuire <m...@flairtones.com> wrote: > > I'm not familiar with LaTex but I may need to check it out since you're > the second person to mention it. I don't expect a lot of fancy graphics > from Gnucash, but it seems like throwing a simple not pixelated graphic > should be simple enough. The rest of the program works fine. I'm looking > for simplicity while still looking professional. Thanks. > > On 3/18/2025 7:35 AM, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user wrote: > > On 3/18/2025 9:11 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > >> This probably does not help you much, but what I did was abandon > >> using GnuCash > >> to generate *printed/printable PDF* invoices directly.ÃÂ Instead, I > >> wrote a > >> simple Python script to extract the invoice information and generate > >> a LaTeX > >> source file and then used LaTeX to create PDFs that I could send to my > >> customers. > > > > That is how to do it. If you want "pretty printed" output, have > > gnucash "print" to a file, and then use a full powered compositing > > program to modify that output to your heart's content. > > > > Think about it for a moment. Why should an accounting program include > > all the capabilities of something like LaTex? > > > > > > Michael D Novack > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services
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