ODT Template clarification

toomanylogins · August 6, 2012, 4:02pm

hello,

Can somebody clarify the functionality of the ODT templates. In the invoicing module I have enabled the DOL_DATA_ROOT/doctemplates/invoices option which contains a file template_invoice.odt.

If I go to the invoice section to generate an invoice I now have the option to use template_invoice.odt to generate the PDF. However when I generate I get a file FA1207-0001_invoice.odt and not a PDF file.

Is this correct? I assumed the example would generate a PDF file with the same format as the template_invoice.odt. Am I misunderstanding something?

Regards
Paul

regis · August 7, 2012, 6:56am

yes we try to find a solution

toomanylogins · August 23, 2012, 3:06pm

Testing updated version 3.2.1 and this problem still occurs. Should I be getting a file template_invoice.pdf or do I need to edit template_invoice.odt to make this work?

Thanks
Paul

regis · August 24, 2012, 4:21am

models “ODT” only generate ODT documents, we can not make PDF automatically in dolibarr for the moment. In the meantime, you can convert ODT to PDF with “openoffice” or “libreoffice”.

toomanylogins · August 24, 2012, 8:06am

Thanks for clarifying that. I misunderstood the functionality sorry for the confusion.
Regards
Paul

IT-KAM · August 24, 2012, 2:12pm

Hi Regis,

As per discussion…, making a PDF with OpenOffice or LibreOffice will not do if you want to sent de invoice by e-mail. Would be nice if it would be converted automatically to PDF. I also have heard that it maybe will be possible in a future release, but for that you guys need to investigate on implementing OO-libraries right?

Kind regards
Edwin

le_top · September 17, 2013, 12:54pm

I had a quick look at the possibility of doing this.

To convert odt to html, I found a suggestion to convert to html first and then to pdf.

There is a GIST explaining how to convert to html, which looks easy to me:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/lovasoa/1918801

README.md

#Ophir.php

## Important note
**This code is not up to date**. It is now hosted at https://github.com/lovasoa/ophir.php
 
<h2>PHP script that converts ODT to HTML</h2>
ophir.php is a lightweight script that parses an <b>open document</b> file and outputs a <b><i>simple</i> HTML</b> file, with very few tags (contrarily to most other tools that do the same).

<h2>Features</h2>
Currently, the script parses bold (b tag), italic (i tag), underline (u tag), quotations (blockquote tag), images (using data URIs), links, headings (h1, h2, ...), lists (ul and li), tables (table tr and td) annotations and footnotes.

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file_upload.php

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title><?php echo @$_FILES["file"]["name"]; ?></title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
require_once("ophir.php");

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ophir.php

<?php
/**
 * @file
 * ODT to HTML conversion functions
 *
 * Two functions are defined here : the first extracts the contents as XML from
 * the ODT file. The second parses the XML to produce HTML.
 */

/* Configuration.

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And converting from html to pdf should not be too hard either.

grain_r · September 17, 2013, 1:35pm

I had a similar issue with the invoicing odt and pdf. I have started another thread about changing my php to change the layout of the pdf and it isn’t too difficult to change and make it your own.