eguile-based reports -- progress

[Phil Longstaff]

The result invoice looks *really* nice :)

2.3.0 has the webkit branch merged in.  I think there are no issues on linux 
and macosx, but am not sure about windows yet.

Phil

On May 26, 2009 08:57:05 pm Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello folks
>
> I have put an new improved version of the 'Tax Invoice' eguile-based
> report on the bugzilla page at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574582
>
> The new version has been tidied up considerably.  It now looks for the
> template part of the report in the user's .gnucash directory or in the
> gnucash/report directory.  I've tested this on Ubuntu Linux and Windows
> Vista only, so I would be very grateful if someone could test it on
> other operating systems.
>
> It also uses the pixmap option routine to allow the user to choose a
> logo properly.
>
> For tax table columns, it still relies on bug fix 573645 which became
> part of trunk on 29 April and should be part of 2.3.0.  Invoices that
> don't reference tax tables are fine without that fix.
>
> It works fine with 2.2.9, but has some enhancements when used with the
> Webkit branch -- i.e. the use of CSS styling, which it makes it look
> much nicer, and the user can choose font face and size.  (The tax table
> fix isn't in the webkit branch yet though.)
>
> I hope it proves useful eventually.  I've also been working on an
> eguile-based balance sheet report -- getting the columns to line up
> nicely is tricky...
>
> cheers
>
> Chris