[Vtigercrm-developers] TeX printing

[Jens Hamisch]

Hi,

I'd prefer a solution that is more generic.

The thing I'm not happy about is to introduce another dependency
into vtiger. However if it becomes necessary, than I'd suggest
to focus on more actual products than latex.

OpenOffice and StarOffice both support the open document standard.
I don't know if M$ will support it some day, too, but the office
suites mentioned above both run on all operation systems. Finally
those who just want to read and print an invoice may do not have
to install the entire office suite. They may use the document
viewers available.

There's another thing I'm missing in vtiger: document management.
vtiger's slogan is to reflect an entire customer life cycle. Today
we have campains, quotes, sales-order and invoices. There are open
issues like contracts and statements that are missing. But this is
just a more or less 'technical' point of view. 
What about all the letters written to (and received from) a customer.
This is also part of the life-cycle and therefor should be managed
by vtiger.

Thus: what we need is an interface to the office suites.
And the logical consequence would be: All documents produced by
vtiger should be based on the same standard as the documents managed
by vtiger. Than it would be easy to manage self-produced documents
as any other documents, too.

My conclusion:
Use the open document standard instead of latex.

Jens



On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:28:10AM -0400, Jorge Torres wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't see why having other formats output support would be a problem,
> Jen's idea of having templates done in OO or others, is great; simply make
> your template on whatever editor you prefer, M$, OO, vi. upload and next
> time you generate  invoices,  buy orders,  or  as the case might  be, you
> have it in pdf, M$, OO,  HTML,  etc. I dont know if those are Jen's plans,
> but I certainly want to  see  Jens work,  where can I get it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jorge
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/9/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt at metux.de> wrote:
> >
> > * Joe Bordes <joe at tsolucio.com> schrieb:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Please take a look at the existng merge system for accounts.
> >
> > Where is it ?
> >
> > > The idea is that you open up OO and write the template, where you want
> > > the contact name (for example) you put CONTACT_NAME and this gets
> > > substituted dynamically when you choose the template and the contact.
> > > If we add this feature to invoice, you could write your invoice in word
> > > and use INVOICE_NUMBER or INVOICE_DATE for example.
> >
> > Actually, I'm not interested in having to cope with blobs like OO,
> > neither do I have anything to do w/ M$ crap. That's totally
> > irrelevant to me.
> >
> > All I want is that the already existing pdf generation stuff
> > produces an high quality pdf preprint for my bills - w/o requiring
> > any manual intervention.
> >
> >
> > cu
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