Invoice Formatting gone haywire

[Adam]

On 15/09/2014 10:00, Geert Janssens wrote:
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> On Sunday 14 September 2014 20:59:10 Adam wrote:
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>
> You haven't mentioned which version of Windows and GnuCash you are 
> using though and where you downloaded GnuCash from. That would be 
> useful to know.
>

Sorry. 2.6.3 git rev 166cbb7+ on 2014-04-01.

I'm pretty sure I downloaded it from gnucash.org.

> > If I uninstall and reinstall GNUCash, and then "print" an invoice,
>
> > this is what I get:
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> > http://www.snowstone.org.uk/temp/corruptinvoice.pdf
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> >
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> > I'd very much like it to look like the standard one at section 12.6.5
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> > here:
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> > http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-guide/bus-ar-invoices1.htm
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> > l
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> >
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> > E.g.:
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> > - without multiple blank line
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> > - without unreadable characters
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> > - without my phone number floating around in the middle of the page
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> > - with a plain font, rather than a frilly one
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> > - with my address on the top right, not underneath the customer's
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> >
>
> Your invoice does look quite messed up indeed. There may be a couple 
> of issues going on here.
>
> GnuCash ships four different invoice layouts. You can find them all 
> under Report->Business:
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> Easy Invoice
>
> Fancy Invoice
>
> Printable Invoice
>
> Tax Invoice
>
> The layout of your "corruptinvoice.pdf" is based on the Fancy Invoice 
> layout. The invoice in the docs you refer to uses the Easy or 
> Printable Invoice layout.
>
> You can configure which layout you want to use when clicking on the 
> print invoice button. For this go to Edit->Preferences and select the 
> Business tab. You will find an option "Report for printing" there 
> which you can change to your preferred invoice layout.
>

Yep, that fixed the formatting...

> Then for the unreadable characters. I have seen other users report 
> that the default font used for displaying the reports sometimes causes 
> poor results on Windows. You can change this as well. For this go to 
> "Edit->Style Sheets" and adjust the font settings for the style sheet 
> in use by your report. If you are unsure which style sheet that is, 
> you can open an invoice for printing and then look in the report 
> options for that invoice.
>

and changing from "sans"to "Arial" fixed this. :)

Thanks a lot,
Adam