[Vtigercrm-developers] TeX printing

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Jens Hamisch <jens at strawberry.com> schrieb:

Hi,

> I'd prefer a solution that is more generic.

well, my approach is quite generic ;-p

> The thing I'm not happy about is to introduce another 
> dependency into vtiger. 

Fearing dependencies is what makes projects really fat and
unmaintainable. Mozilla is an good (bad) example for that ;P

BTW: you don't need to have (la)tex. You can use some other
renderer (ie. fpdf-based, plain html, ...)

<snip>

> However if it becomes necessary, than I'd suggest to focus 
> on more actual products than latex.

Yes, Latex is quite old, but it's also quite, quite stable.
Coding activity is no appropriate indicator on quality.

> OpenOffice and StarOffice both support the open document standard.

Nice. Do you expect me to have that blod installed+running just 
to get an pdf bill ?

> 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.

I do *not* want any bit in some $office_format. I just want to 
have my bills as pdf w/ *my* custom layout. Latex is an very
proven approach. 

> There's another thing I'm missing in vtiger: document management.

Ugh, that's another story ...

> 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.

Interface != Storage/Encoding/Format.


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