I discovered Simple Invoices today and I must say I'm really impressed with this product. I have one suggestion though... It would be great if Simple Invoices could export to PDF and still maintain non-Latin characters. I used the demo to create an invoice with some text input in Hebrew. It works great while in HTML, works great when exported to DOC and XLS formats but when exported to PDF the Hebrew characters appear as question marks. If you want to see what I'm talking about check the quote 202 in the demo.
were using tufats's html2pdf to handle pdf - and weve got it set to uft-8 - so it should be hebrew characters - but ive never really tried - will check the demo now
you might want to download and install simple invoices and try hacking the pdf stuff to see if you can get it working - as it should work with non latin characters Cheers
Thanks for the reply. I tested today tufat's standalone html2pdf and it handled Hebrew except it was written in wrong direction. Hebrew is written from right-to-left and in the converted PDF the result was reversed. For example a word ABC in the output was CBA which is not very good... :) As I said, in Simple Invoices, for some reason, Hebrew doesn't work at all... Maybe it's a font issue? Maybe Simple Invoices is using a font that doesn't have fonts for Hebrew? One such is Verdana. If this is the case, as a first step, it would be great if one could choose through the Simple Invoices interface the font to be used through out the system. Arial would be a good choice for Latin and non-Latin characters. Except for that, I have no suggestions and trying to fix this is well beyond my scope of knowledge.
related to this: I've tried to use Japanese in Simple Invoices, and though it shows up fine in the quickview/html, it is corrupted in the PDF. Again, a font issue I think, as Arial does not have all the japanese characters. Arial Unicode has, but I am not sure how to fix this.
