Invoice - Custom Design Header for No. 9 Double Window Envelope

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 3/19/2015 9:42 AM, L. D. James wrote:
> Does anyone know of some way, plugin or workaround for Invoice design 
> that will correctly place the company return address and the 
> customer's address for a No. 9 Double Window Envelope (CO165)?
>
> If nothing else, hopefully someone might have some knowledge of how 
> the style sheets are stored so that I can try to manually edit the 
> specification.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or comments.
>
> -- L. James
>


This is precisely the sort of thing that you don't (or shouldn't) want 
inside the accounting package. What you do is produce the output from 
gnucash as a file and then process that file through a "batch editor". 
For crying out loud, if you had a large volume to mail out, you'd be 
wanting them presorted and batched  by zip code. Expect THAT from inside 
the accounting package?

Those of us who worked (or still work) in the cypher mines will tell 
you, keep things as independent as possible. If next year you have a 
slightly different envelope window placement you DON'T want to have to 
touch an accounting program to make the necessary adjustment. The folks 
in the "print room" who are going to do things like testing the fit into 
envelopes don't require access to the books!



Michael D Novack, FLMI

PS: If you give it a little thought, you will probably be able to come 
up with a whole bunch of other things you might want to do. Split off 
those longer overdue and/or larger amounts for a special insert? Split 
off large/important customers for a special insert? That presort by zip 
separating out the zips for which you can get a lower postal rate by 
batching?

PSS: It's the "batch editor" where you should be doing things like 
changing fonts, inserting logo graphics, etc.