Problems with printed Invoice format

[John Whitmore]

Cross posted there. Thanks for the advice. Even though you're not really
helping here ;-) So pagination needs to be implemented. Hmmm.. must look and
see what the mechanism is, library and language used etc.


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 01:14:35PM -0500, John Mitchell wrote:
> I have found some of the same issues with invoices as John. They do not paginate and although I have successfully created a custom invoice, I have to change to it using the options button before printing each time. The default invoice is not customizable enough to suit my purposes. I'd like to be able to select my custom invoice as the default.
> 
> John W. Mitchell
> Lillian Services LLC
> (251) 597-9257
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 12:00 PM
> To: John Whitmore <arigead at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: Problems with printed Invoice format
> 
> John,
> 
> It sounds like the documentation is a little misleading. Try looking at the report options before choosing print. At least, that’s where I see the style sheet selector. Once you’ve selected the style sheet, you should see the changes.
> 
> HTH,
> David
> 
> BTW, what section of the documentation were you citing?
> 
> > On Oct 26, 2016, at 8:57 PM, John Whitmore <arigead at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Been using GnuCash for a while and I guess this is the first time I've 
> > hit problems with my invoices. I've created an invoice with a lot of 
> > entries, which have unfortunately stretched over more then one page. 
> > The printed invoice is not being paginated at all.
> > 
> > On top of that one the customer is complaining that the Invoice 
> > contains the term "Tax" where as it should be "VAT" of "Value Added Tax".
> > 
> > I took these problems as the motivation to actually customise my 
> > Invoice by following the documentation to create a new style sheet 
> > with my Logo and stuff. That's given me another problem as the 
> > documentation states that: "With the style sheet configured, when you 
> > print the invoice, you select the style sheet to use from the Options 
> > menu." There is no "Options" Menu? When I select print if goes 
> > straight to an un-paginated basic invoice. No option to change that. :-( I know it's in here somewhere.
> > 
> > I'm running version 2.6.12 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, I probably 
> > installed straight from the package manager for convenience, so I must 
> > go look at latest, and installing from source, but I don't imagine that's my problem.
> > 
> > Cheers for any thoughts. I know I'm simply missing something obvious 
> > in all three cases, but Internet ain't helping.
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