Modify Invoice Templates

[David Eisner]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Paul Kruger<paul at paulkruger.us> wrote:
> invoices with Gnucash unless he is also a graduate computer programmer.
> Daisy the secretary will be totally lost.

You don't think it's reasonable to expect the end-user to learn a
dialect of Lisp in order to customize the invoice appearance? (I kid)

> Use standard HTML and CSS files for templates then place the code to print
> the data where needed.  That way almost anyone can edit templates or offer
> various template designs for download for non-html people. You are already
> set to output as html so why not use the same HTML as a template?

This seems like the way to go.  I bet a decent number of users could
contribute to report improvement if the only skills needed were CSS
and HTML (and maybe Javascript...).  Will the integration of Webkit in
the 2.3 series make this more feasible?  I don't see this in the
roadmap [1], but perhaps it's out of date.

-David

[1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Roadmap

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