Making invoices in Openoffice, and saving as a PDF file is annoying and taking too long. Is there any command-line software for Linux that can generate a high quality PDF invoice?
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Check out LaTeX. It has a command line interface and I think can read Open Documents but I am not sure about that. |
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If you don't mind writing a little code, you could use FreshBooks as your invoicing system, and then use their (very simple!) API to create invoices and/or download them in PDF format. The nice thing about this solution is that you also have a great non-automated system for dealing with invoices. |
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I don't think this can make invoices from command line, but it's a good tool to know about: http://www.gnucash.org/ |
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This might be a question you want to post on StackOverflow which is more programming oriented and they might have better idea of how you could do this. |
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I would recommend you to use Invoicera, it is an easy to use Invoice billing application with so many advanced features like Invoice scheduling, multiple currency support, multiple payment gateways support and time & expense tracking management. You can easily create high quality PDF invoices and send those PDF invoices to your clients in attachment. |
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I ended up using my own solution. I create the invoice as an RTF or other openoffice file. Then, using a custom script, I replace certain keywords in it. The unoconv utility can convert any openoffice file to PDF. |
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I use http://bambooinvoice.org/. Its free, easy to use and can integrate with your emailing system. |
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