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Editing Invoice Appearance (PDF)

AlexUser Total Posts: 27 Joined: 2008-03-10 Ignore user	Hello All, I have a question about the PDF Invoices. I want to deploy to start deploying Magento but the Invoices it generates look pretty weak. How would i go about editing them or changing their appearance ? Any pointers would be great. Regards Alex
	Posted: April 29 2008 \| top

AlexUser Total Posts: 27 Joined: 2008-03-10 Ignore user	Can anyone shed any light on this. I assume people who are using this on live stores have either edited the invoices or export and use another system. Any help would be truly appreciated. Alex
	Posted: May 2 2008 \| top \| # 1

ahri Total Posts: 9 Joined: 2008-03-29 Ignore user	I have the same questio. I don’t find yet where to modify it :(
	Posted: May 4 2008 \| top \| # 2

AlexUser Total Posts: 27 Joined: 2008-03-10 Ignore user	Has anyone managed to work this out. What are people with live stores doing as the default looks terrible ? Alex
	Posted: June 6 2008 \| top \| # 3

John Total Posts: 41 Joined: 2007-12-20 Sheffield Ignore user	I know the answer is to override the Abstract.php and Invoice.php in Sales/Model/Order/Pdf/ but not got to that yet. On the list though so I will share once I know. Regards John
	Posted: June 6 2008 \| top \| # 4

AlexUser Total Posts: 27 Joined: 2008-03-10 Ignore user	Thats really helpful will take a look now. Alex
	Posted: June 6 2008 \| top \| # 5

alistek Total Posts: 293 Joined: 2008-04-02 Normal, IL Ignore user	Actually editing the Invoices aren’t that difficult. There is a template file (I believe under Sales section in a folder called PDF) that has all the calls that you need to edit it. It is based off of Zend PDF framework so you can take a look at that for the function calls. I would say give that a look. -Adam
	Posted: June 6 2008 \| top \| # 6

John Total Posts: 41 Joined: 2007-12-20 Sheffield Ignore user	Hi - I am now at the stage where I am looking to move the client Invoice/Credit Note/… up to the client current design and look. I have a question about overloading the Abstract.. I have already overloaded the app/code/core/Mage/Sales/Model/Order/Pdf/invoice.php file using the normal overload and below is the config.xml that I am using to overload the invoice.php file (Mage_Sales_Model_Order_Pdf_Invoice) `<global> <models> <sales> <rewrite> <order_pdf_invoice>Charlie_Sales_Model_Order_Pdf_Invoice</order_pdf_invoice> </rewrite> </sales> </models> </global>` This works great… now most of the code I need to change is in the Abstract.php..! Does anyone know how to do this? I have tried the obvious (below) but that did not work - nor did it seem right. `<order_pdf_abstract>Charlie_Sales_Model_Order_Pdf_Abstract</order_pdf_abstract>` The problem seems to be that Abstract is not called via a Mage::getModel(....) call but is an inherited class. - Do I have to overload the whole class structure and if so has anyone any idea how to do this? Thanks for your time John
	Posted: August 20 2008 \| top \| # 7

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