Extra content added to printed invoices

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:08:55 -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Paul Gear <paul at gear.dyndns.org> writes:
> 
> > The Australian tax invoice i hacked up can be had from this page:
> > 	http://libertysys.com.au/gnucash/tax-invoice
> > I'd be happy for it to be included in future versions if anyone cares to
> > do so (i changed very little of it, so i didn't even bother copyrighting
> > my extensions).  It would be even better if it could be called "tax
> > invoice", rather than "fancy invoice", but when i tried to do that it
> > broke things.
> 
> A couple of things...
> 
> 1) This invoice is based off 2.0.x, not 2.2.x/trunk, so it wont work
>    with current GnuCash.

How different is the scheme API between 2.0 and 2.2?  I too am still
using 2.0 and am not likely to upgrade to 2.2 for a while.  I'll
probably end up hacking a customized scheme file for invoices (and
probably also for 'customer statements' as well).

> 2) It doesn't look like much was changed here except changing a few
>    of the default options and changing the "Invoice" to "Tax Invoice"
>    string....  Which could be abstracted out by creating a new option
>    for that string.
> 3) You changed the date format..  (this should be made an option, too)
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something in your changes?   Could you up-port to
> 2.2, maybe making it all options off the fancy-invoice so we don't
> duplicate so much code?  Some of the option changes don't belong in
> the changes because you can save the change as a Custom Report.  But
> some of the changes definitely should get abstracted out.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> 
> -derek
> 
> PS: This might want to move over to -devel...

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