Customising Invoice Reports

[Derek Atkins]

This should get a /little/ better with the g2 release.
I'm still waiting for someone to integrate e-guile into
the report system; then you can create an invoice template
in HTML and execute embedded-guile.

-derek

Benedick Miller <benedick_miller at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> I am afraid I can't help but just wanted to say I have
> had similar problems. I like Gnucash very much but
> printing is a disaster. I can't and don't use Gnucash
> to print my invoices. I end up doing them by hand,
> which is a waste of time. I would have a hard time
> recommending Gnucash to another business user solely
> because of the printing issues. Pity, because
> otherwise it is so good.
>
> --- Brian Keen <brian.keen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi folks,
>>  Need some advice on customising the fancy invoice
>> report:-
>> I want to get the printed invoice to fit on a single
>> A4 sheet.
> ...
>>  It would also help if I could reduce the font-size.
>> I can't figure out how - other than to edit the
>> resulting HTML file. I don't
>> want to do that every time I create another invoice.
>>  I also wanted to change the word 'Sales' to 'VAT'
>> at the end of the table
> ...
>> Although GnuCash seems to work well, customising
>> reports needs to be made
>> more user friendly for the average user.
>> It shouldn't really be necessary for someone trying
>> to run a business to
>> have to start hacking lisp.

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