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Re: Blatt wrapper question

• Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> May 04, 2005
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George Walters wrote:

> They are text files destined to be printed (5 form types for invoices,
> and 5 form types for quotations, and purchase orders). Some of them, after
> being printed need to also be either faxed, or emailed, or both.

Just decide on a nice text-only format and create a template for it. That's
what I've done for an emailed notice I send to clients. I embed "field codes"
and then just insert the appropriate data. For an invoice and quote system,
you'd probably want to come up with some fancy stuff to be able to lay out
the line items. I wonder if Kanary would be useful here...

   http://users.telenet.be/tommycarlier/eu/genlib.htm

If you want to go "nicely formatted," with "graphics" (logos, etc),
non-monospaced fonts, etc., wxWidgets has a wxHTML widget that would let
you display the invoice in HTML and print it out that way as well. You
could use graphics, logos, etc. That would be very cool. You could also
alert the customer that the documents you send are HTML formatted, and
give them a clue that they should view and print them with a web browser.

-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/