Easier reports with eguile-gnc

[Andrew Greig]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:23 +0000, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello folks
> 
> I have developed a method of combining an HTML template and Guile source
> to make it easier to create GnuCash reports such as invoices.
> 
> I have filed an enhancement bug report for this -- see
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574582
> 
> These changes have not been included into the GnuCash system yet, but
> they can easily be bolted on to your existing GnuCash installation --
> further instructions are in the bug report.
> 
> I have used this templating system to create a flexible tax invoice
> (taxinvoice.scm): sample output is available at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=130661
> 
> I have tested it with the latest SVN 'trunk' version and 2.2.6 on Linux,
> and also on 2.2.8 on Windows (with a bit of manual adjustment to file 
> paths).  However, please note that this is still under development, so 
> use it AT YOUR OWN RISK!  Please DOUBLE CHECK THE FIGURES if you use it 
> to create customer invoices.
> 
> It's layout is more pleasing to my eye than the standard Gnucash invoice 
> (obviously that's a matter of personal taste). It also automatically 
> selects columns to display -- for example it only displays the discount 
> columns if one or more of the entries involves discounts. Likewise for 
> taxes (although the display of tax details requires a bug fix -- see
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573645). All the column 
> headings are customizable via options.
> 
> Reports created this way are still limited by GTKHTML's inability to
> honour <font> tags or CSS stylesheets.  Hopefully GnuCash can get round
> that limitation eventually -- I know this has been discussed in the past.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Chris
> 


Wow, Chris!

That looks very good.  

How easy is it to change "VAT Invoice" to "Tax Invoice"?  And how much
space may the logo and header take up?

Andrew Greig