why gc invoices are not lacking

[Johan Pretorius]

Coming in from the outside here: Is it an option to develop a set of
"standard" LaTex invoice templates for this tool that was mentioned?  This
way, non-developers should be able to set their GnuCash up with one of the
templates and have it work fine with no problems.

They can then also edit the template (or get their *nix savvy cousin to
edit it) if necessary.



On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Mark Hanford <mark at hanfordonline.co.uk>wrote:

> On 15 September 2013 20:40, Anonymous <nobody at frog.aanmy.com> wrote:
> >>The most important feature now in terms of business use is to
> >>automatically create an invoice in pdf, and to make it look "bloody
> >>fantastic" into the bargain.  It could even sport a "Invoice created
> >>by gnucash" by line.  One could certainly Print straight to a printer
> >>but a copy of the formatted Invoice could go to a nominated
> >>directory.
> >
> > Should gnucash be formatting documents?
> >
> > I used to think that gnucash invoicing was severly limited and
> > lacking.  But after hacking around to circumvent the limitations, I've
> > found better tools for the job which are more specialized at what they
> > do.  Why reinvent functionality?
> >
> > LaTeX is the best formatting/typesetting tool in the world.  There is
> > a tool for extracting gnucash invoices and generating LaTeX code:
> >
> >   http://stefans.datenbruch.de/gnucash/gc2latex.shtml
> >
> > LaTeX gives great control over the cosmetics of the invoice, and the
> > results are impressive.
> >
> > The other factor is standardization.  Should every finance tool
> > reconstruct code that produces a Belgian Credit Transfer Form, for
> > example?  A proper gnu philosophy is to have many tools each devoted
> > to a small job that it does well.  The LaTeX invoice.sty package would
> > ideally be made aware of how to format an invoice for each particular
> > region.
> >
> > I would rather see gnucash improve on the ablity to import and export
> > data, to better leverage the efforts of other gnu projects.  The
> > gc2latex tool would ideally become included as an inherent part of
> > gnucash, so as to encourage users to exploit the power of latex.
> >
> > FYI, a sample of the Belgian Credit Transfer Form is here:
> >
> >   http://sepabelgium.be/fr/virement
> >
> > Belgian invoices should have that at the bottom.  However, the
> > graphical construction of that should not be implemented by gnucash
> > developers.. it should be done by LaTeX developers.  GC developers
> > should only focus on smooth interoperability with latex.
> >
> >>Emailing the invoice directly to a a customer would be outstanding.
> >>This is, in essence, my wish list.
> >
> > If you were to use gc2latex, which you would most likely wrap with a
> > shell script, you could easily write the shell code to email the
> > invoice after pdflatex generates it.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Depends on if the GC community wants non-developers using GC
> effectively. There's no need for ANY wysiwyg software at all, and yet
> they're oddly prevalent.
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