Easier reports with eguile-gnc

[Chris Dennis]

Andrew Greig wrote:
> 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"?  

Very. There are options for most of the column headings.

> And how much
> space may the logo and header take up?

As much as you like.  It's just HTML, so things get adjusted to fit the 
page -- if the logo is too big, it will push other things aside and make 
the layout look a mess I expect.

cheers

Chris
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis at btinternet.com
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK