Invoice Formatting (Windows)

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

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Adam <gnucash at snowstone.org.uk> writes:

> On 11-Apr-16 3:28 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>> Adam <gnucash at snowstone.org.uk> writes:
>>
>> > I've been tearing my hair out trying to alter the default invoice
>> > format for GNUCash 2.6.11. I've been trying to alter the
>> > easy-invoice.scm (and/or invoice.scm) file at:
>> > C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash\guile-modules\gnucash\report
>> Did you restart GnuCash after you made changes to the .scm file?
> Yes, though if it wasn't necessary, knowing that would be a great help
> for my trial-and-error process given it takes quite a long time for
> GNUCash to open here.

Unfortunately it is necessary.  GnuCash caches the scheme files at
load-time so if you change it you must restart gnucash to reload the
scheme files.

> [snip]
>>> (As an aside, I'm also pretty confused about the relationship between
>>> the style-sheets, the options and the .scm file, and how to make
>>> things permanent :/ )
>> The .scm file is the report implementation that also includes the
>> default options.  The options are tweaks you can make to control the
>> report content.  The stylesheet controls the look-and-feel of the
>> displayed output.
> OK, thanks.
>
> Adam

-derek

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