Hi; I am going to go ahead and post a description of how the LaTeX templates work here and what is usually needed to get them up and working. Some of this may be review but I am partly writing for people who may come and read it in the future.
The PDF and PS invoices are generated using a program called LaTeX which handles the layout and typesetting. The actual LaTeX files are creating using Template Toolkit with extensions for LaTeX. These extensions are in the Template::Latex package available from CPAN. The software then generates a LaTeX file which is then processed to create a PDF or PS. Typically the first thing to do is to install a LaTeX distribution like TexLive (distributed with many Linux distributions and available for OSX and Windows). This provides LaTeX and many of the modules needed. In general I recommend that if your distro has a texlive-extras package that you install this too. After this is installed, you must then install Template::Latex. This can be done by typing on the command line: cpan Template::Latex This will also install a number of dependencies including LaTeX::Driver, which will need to know where your LaTeX binaries are. It is usually pretty good at finding them. If things go wrong and you can't get it to work, the following commands may provide useful diagnostic information when requesting help: >From the LedgerSMB application directory: perl -MLedgerSMB::Template::Latex -e print >From the doc/manual directory in the LedgerSMB application directory: pdflatex LedgerSMB-manual Best Wishes, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
