[freeside] HTML invoice?

[Derek Billingsley]

In another project I'm working on, I used a great Perl module PDF::API2
to build PDF's of invoices.
 
This is handy because you can convert your existing stationary to PDF
and import it and use it as the basis of your invoice:
    ## Open the generic invoice
    $generic = $base_dir . "/generic_template.pdf";
    $pdf=PDF::API2->open($generic);
    $page = $pdf->openpage;
 
Then you go about positioning text to print on the page.  I wrote a
function that sets up the fonts and writes a text box to a point on the
page:
printto(300, 590, 10, "black", 0, 1, "Mailing Address (if different)");
 
, where:
sub printto {
   ($x, $y, $fontsize, $color, $underline, $bold, $text) = @_;
 
   if ($bold == 0) {
      $txt->font($f1, $fontsize);
   } else {
      $txt->font($f1bold, $fontsize);
   }
 
   $txt->translate($x, $y);
 
   if ($underline == 1) {
      $txt->text($text, -color=>[$color], -underline=>0);
   } else {
      $txt->text($text, -color=>[$color]);
   }
}
 
 
API2 gives you a lot more capability that I only barely use - using
line-art on a part, importing images to place on the PDF, ..
 
I haven't really dug into Freeside that deeply yet - I wanted to start
using it as a front-end to Plesk but I would need to run a separate
postgres instance in order to service the database requests.  Anyone out
there interface Freeside with Plesk yet?  Or have I just discovered
another hobby  :)
 
Derek

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Moline [mailto:n.moline at wcwireless.net] 
Sent: 05 August 2003 06:20
To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com; Rob Charles
Subject: Re: [freeside] HTML invoice?


this is a feature I was hoping for as well, but with a step further, I
was hoping to be able to use the html2ps program to convert the html to
postscript to print the more stylized results on a postscript enabled
printer.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Rob  <mailto:rob at thehostmasters.com> Charles 
To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:06 PM
Subject: [freeside] HTML invoice?

Is it possible to send HTML invoices rather than plain Jane ones? I was
looking around and it seems whatever send the email invoices does not
put/include the content type or mine type in the email headers. 
 
I suppose if I new what cgi or perl module or whatever file had the
headers in it I could add it myself. Since there is a choice for the
welcome message I figure there should be an option for invoices too ,
no?
 
Thanks a bunch...
 
 
Rob Charles
TheHostMasters
Montreal, Canada
514-846-0006
Rob at TheHostMasters.com
http://www.TheHostMasters.com
 

 

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