Multi-page invoices

[Geert Janssens]

Op 02-03-13 03:48, Mike Alexander schreef:
> --On March 1, 2013 4:50:28 PM +0100 Geert Janssens 
> <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
>
>> That's about all I have. I had hoped for a better outcome, but it
>> seems we're rather stuck with two nasty bugs.
>
> I haven't looked at this at all, but would it be possible to use the 
> eguile report code for this?  If so you should be able to use CSS 
> easily.  I don't really know if this would help solve the problems or 
> not.
>
>           Mike
>
Thanks Mike, I had been thinking of it, but forgot to mention it eventually.

Yes, using the eguile code will help us fix one part of the issue. It 
would indeed be much easier to insert css code in it. And the good news 
here is that we already have an eguile based invoice report. So there is 
very little left to do on the gnucash side for this particular use case.

The bug in webkit remains though. It will have to be worked around by 
postprocessing (with for example wkhtmltopdf) or our print process will 
have to bypass webkit. In theory what R. Victor Klassen proposed could 
work as well: pre-process the html code before handing it over to 
webkit. But I'm not sure that's easily accomplished in a cross-platform 
manner. In essence that would be like rewriting large parts of an html 
renderer.

Geert