How to modify the default invoice

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 6/5/2016 12:16 AM, Jacqueline Greenleaf wrote:
> Oh well, thanks again for your help.
>
> There must be a way to customize invoices, like adding artwork or customizing fonts, but I suspect that’s graduate level - but at least now my phone number shows up, and that’s no small thing!
No, not "graduate level" unless you insist on doing things the hard way.

Guncash can easily provide the invoices WITHOUT those refinements. So 
instead of sending a bunch of invoices to the printer directly from 
gnucash you "print as file" and then this file can be sent to a FULL 
FUNCTION editor and that is where would get modified to add artwork, 
logos, colors, fancy custom fonts, etc.

There is a whole lot of things you might want to do post gnucash. For 
example, if you were a large business mailing out a large number of 
invoices each time might want to sort by zip (to get the reduced bulk 
mailing postal rate) etc.

But this is more or less true for other things besides invoices. Back 
when I first began with gnucash I asked our lawyer-accountant if I 
should create the special report formats as used by non-profits << I 
could have done it, made my living designing/writing software and while 
never used for my job, could read most any language and shortly could 
have become fluent writing in a LISP dialect (what scheme is) >> He 
said, "Don't bother Mike. Just export the DATA (the several reports) and 
we'll use a full purpose editor to combine them. What any experienced 
accountant would do. After all, will be adding fixed text, annotations 
and their corresponding footnotes, etc."

Michael D Novack