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How to automatically create OpenDocument invoices without OpenOffice

Posted by mfioretti on · 2 comments
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Here is a script takes an Opendocument template and fills it with data from a plain text file (which could be generated on the fly by querying a database or in many other ways), creating an OpenDocument invoice ready to be printed or sent via email.

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Sander_Marechal ·
The script will lead to an ODF file with an invalid mimetype. Creating an ODF file using the zip command on the commandline is only slightly more complicated. See this article on my blog: http://www.jejik.com/articles/2010/03/how_to_correctly_creat...
mfioretti ·
Sander, thanks for the suggestion, which indeed fixes the weak part of the script. Somebody else already added yesterday another way to achieve the same result, you'll find it in the comments. I have already added your comment too to the article.

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