[ANN] gcinvoice.py, a tool to create invoices from templates

[Roman Bertle]

Hello,

I herewith announce gcinvoice, a tool to create invoices from Gnucash
data files using templates.

About
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Up to now, Gnucash can create invoices, but the format and layout of
these invoices cannot be controlled freely using templates. Gcinvoice is
a tool which parses the Gnucash data file and uses a user provided
template to generate invoices. It is similar to g2latex
(http://stefans.datenbruch.de/gnucash/gc2latex.shtml) by Stefan Tomanek,
but the latter was not powerful enough for my needs, and did somehow not
work for me.

Features
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* works with data files from Gnucash starting with version 2.0.
            
* full support for discount and taxes, but WARNING:
  In my opinion, Gnucash does not calculate POSTTAX discounts correctly,
  see this bug in the Gnucash bug database. gcinvoice calculates the
  taxes the way I think it should be, and thus gives a different result
  for invoices with such discouts.
            
* needs only a working python installation, 2.5 <= version < 3.
            
* Can be run standalone, or easily integrated into python applications.
            
* gcinvoice is free software.
            
Licence and Credits
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gcinvoice was written by Roman Bertle bertl at smoerz.org 2007-2008.  It
contains an adapted version of YAPTU, a templating utility written by
Alex Martelli. gcinvoice is published under the Python license.

    
Download, Installation and Documentation
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Simply download the sources from http://www.smoerz.org/gcinvoice/,
unpack and follow the instructions in the contained README files.


Best Regards, and thanks to all developers of Gnucash

Roman Bertle