Greetings,
I have a small business for which I produce invoices on a biweekly
basis. I presently create them in a spreadsheet (in Applix, fwiw). I
have templates for them, so I'm not re-inventing the wheel every time,
but the whole process is very tedious.
I want to improve upon my laziness, impatience, and hubris by
automating this stuff so that it can be done from the commandline (or,
better, from a cron job so that I just grab the printed invoices out
of the printer twice a month).
These invoices have a small color graphic (though I could certainly
dump that if keeping it proved impractical), lots of ruled lines, and
a small amount of text. The amounts invoiced vary with each invoice,
so I can't simply use a static page. The data appearing in the invoice
will be pulled from a database (either a text file or even from MySQL)
and inserted into the invoice file. It just seems to me to be a waste
of my time filling in these invoices every two weeks when (with the
proper tool to produce good output) I could let the computer do it for
me.
What tools are available for doing something like this? I know that
TeX/LaTeX could do it, but a) it seems to me to be overkill and b)
learning it might kill me :-)
I'd appreciate any suggestions anyone might have for handling this.
Thanks in advance!
Fred Noltie
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