Batch printing of invoices from gnucash

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm>:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Hey, you get what you pay for.  Would you rather pay Intuit $300-500
>> and have to do everything in Windows?  ;)
>
> I've been using gnucash for a long time, and it does very well apart 
> from it's lack of scalability. This is just an observation, if we 
> need to pay to solve the problem then I have no problem paying, 
> although at the moment there are no plans to replace the macs with 
> windows machines ;).

hehe.   Yeah, gnucash really doesn't have good batch processing features.
It's never been a real requirement.

>> Honestly, I don't know.  The problem is that the reports are generated
>> as HTML and output through GtkHTML, and the PDF generation is 
>> performed by the
>> interaction of gtkhtml and gnome-print.  It's unlikely this would work
>> without a GUI.
>
> If it were possible to get access to the HTML (assuming it's 
> parseable as XML) from the command line, it would be a huge step in 
> the right direction. This lends itself to automatic report 
> generation, which can be made available for download, etc.

It MAY be possible to access the HTML without a GUI.  However it's
NOT xhtml, so it wouldn't be parsable as XML.  At least not at the moment.

> Regards,
> Graham

-derek

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