Simple Invoices - Forum

hi chris

just tested on the demo site and the logo appeared on the PDF fine

are you using one of the logos that come with Simple Invoices or your own?

cheers

justin

Its one of my own. This is using the latest version on my own server. m

As I said its working fine in the print version but not the pdf output?

It is a jpg file

Thanks

Chris

thanks chris

can you test using one of the logos that comes with Simple Invoices - just want to see if PDF doesnt like your logo and any logos

let us know how you go

cheers

justin

Hi Justin its not working in using any of the logos that come preinstalled?

Thanks

Chris

thanks chris

- haven't seen this before
- i'll try a fresh install on my webserver and see what happens
-- one thing you can try is to use firebug in firefox and view the html for the img section for the logo in the print preview and see if there is anything weird going ok -ie. spaces/funny characters etc.. that our pdf converter mightn't like

cheers

justin

Hi Chris,

i've tested this and can confirm that on some servers the logo does not display in the PDF

there must be a php setting that is stopping this from happening

i'm still looking into this

If you find a solution please let us know

Cheers

Justin

I am getting the same issue - logos show up fine, but not on the PDF.

I have complete control on the server - let me know if you want me to test some settings.

I see the following error in my log file, not sure if this is related:

2009/11/19 10:51:36 [error] 21192#0: *203006 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Cannot open
Notice: Missing AFM file '/var/www/simpleinvoices/library/pdf/fonts/arialuni.afm'; attempting to parse font file '/var/www/simpleinvoices/library/pdf/fonts/arialuni.ttf' directly" while reading response header from upstream, client: nn.nn.nn.nn, server: example.com, request: "GET /index.php?module=export&view=invoice&id=1&format=pdf HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:7472", host: "example.com", referrer: "http://example.com/index.php?module=invoices&view=manage


@yhager

re log error
- hmm.. this is refering the arial font file and shouldn't mess with the logo in the pdf
- chmod 777 the fonts folder and retry - normally the pdf system creates is own font files
- test and let us know how you go

cheers

justin

Hi,
I'm having the same problem. When i click on the pdf generate icon, it generates an error in the apache log. The PDF looks fine except it doesn't show a logo. I Have the same problem with the example logo's.

This is the error: Cannot open , referer: http:///invoice/index.php?module=invoices&view=manage

The png file is readable for everyone. It is clear that apache is unable to open something, but what?

OS: CentOS 5.4
PHP 5.2.9
Apache: 2.2.3

There seems someone with the same problem who has fixed it, but it didn't work for me:

http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?t=58245

I had the same problem on my Windows 7 machine .. the fix is simple .. localhost does not resolve to 127.0.0.1 due to I guess IPV6 (also in Vista). Just accessed the invoice as http://127.0.0.1/simple instead of http://localhost/simple and it worked. The logo appears in the PDF also now.

@ssrini

awesome! - thanks for the update - very handy to know

cheers

justin

just letting you know I'm having the same problem. The apache log shows that the server is accessing the Logo just fine and not reporting any errors though.

Preview works fine though.

Running 2010.1 simpleinvoices.

Same problem with logo. I just installed 2010.1 after using 2008 for quite awhile. The logo and form look great in 'Preview' and prints great. However when processing to a PDF, no logo AND the format of text is different from the Preview. PDF has all 'Invoice Summary' over the 'Biller' text. In 'Print Preview' 'Invoice Summary' is on the right below the word Invoice.
In the old version the Preview looked exactly like the PDF. BTW - I'm using the same logo as in the old version.
I think its in a change in html2pdf.... just a guess.

Frank

hey jbhewiit and Frank

can you try ssrini's suggestion and use http://127.0.0.1 instead of http://localhost

let us know if this helps

cheers

justin

Tried that - using the web not local ! Same problem. Also I should add the the 'Export as .doc' creates a .bin file !!! Export as .xls works but no logo and the text is as in the .PDF, Invoice Summary is over Biller.
I run linux RH, same as I did in 2008 ver. I did NOT perform an upgrade, did a backup of both and edited the the 2010 with my (small amount) data.

Looks great, logo is only problem.

Frank

New install of ver 2010 /simpleinvoices/mysql/Full_simple_invoices.sql - found some quirks : From 'Money' then 'Invoice' select the PDF icon and a selection of .pdf .xls or .doc appears. Selecting the .doc WILL make a word doc. FROM the 'Quick View' icon then selecting the 'Export as .doc' will try to make a .BIN file !
Both .xls and both .pdf print the same, no logo and not like the 'Print Preview'.

Minor bugs expected,

Frank

Yer I've upgraded to 2010.2.beta3 and still the same problem.

Trying it on the server with 127.0.0.1 makes no difference.
The preview works fine, but the PDF conversion does not.

I do have simpleinvoices pointing to a virtual domain, like invoices.mydomain.com . So I tried adding an alias instead and working directly on the server with http://127.0.0.1/simpleinvoices with the same result.

I've scoured the log files of Apache and see no problems with missing files or logo attachments not being found. I'm not that familiar with the html2pdf library and have had a bit of a poke around the past half hour and come up with nothing.

UPDATE - ok so I was poking around the the PDF library in simpleinvoices and noticed a demo directory.

Ran the systemcheck ( http://127.0.0.1/simpleinvoices/library/pdf/demo/systemcheck.php ) and found out that PHP-GD was missing.

So I installed php5 GD library ...
apt-get install php5-gd

and viola it worked.

Just took a little while to figure out. Perhaps a PHP GD checker could be added in the installer/upgrader in future versions of SimpleInvoices to make this dummy proof.

thanks jbhewitt!!!

alot of people have been having this problem so great to see a solution

i've added sys requirements checker to our ideas list
- http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/wiki/ideas

i've added this to our faq on the wiki and forum

thanks again!!

cheers

justin

i still have the problem with the pdf logo.
i have read the faq and this thead.

os: debian lenny (vserver)

all the needed extensions are installed.
print invoice works
but no logo in pdf

i think my special problem is that i use a vserver
lan in 192.168.x.x network
debian has a vlan: 172.x.x.x

i tried to add the domain name in the host file, but no effort.

i think accessing the pdf over the domain/ip/url is a rather bad approach. i would prefere a simple fileopen from the local path, i think this would work.

anbody know a solution for this problem?


===phpinfo.php
---snip----
gd
GD Support enabled
GD Version 2.0 or higher
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.3.7
T1Lib Support enabled
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled
---snip----

=== systemcheck.php
XML DOM extension
Native XML DOM extension found
Curl PHP Extension
Found Curl extension version 7.
allow_url_fopen ini setting
allow_url_fopen is enabled
pcre.backtrack_limit ini setting
pcre.backtrack_limit is greater than 1,000,000
GD PHP Extension
GD version 2.0.1+ required for 'imagecreatetruecolor' function to work
GD JPEG Support
JPEG support enabled
GD GIF Support
GIF support enabled
GD PNG Support
PNG support enabled
Permissions on 'temp' subdirectory
'temp' subdirectory is fully accessible to the script
Permissions on 'fonts' subdirectory
'fonts' subdirectory is readable and executable by the script
Permissions on Type1 fonts directory
Type1 fonts directory (c:\gs\fonts\) is missing. You will not be able to generate postscript files.
Presense of registered TTF files

a strange thing is, that the check tells me (red color) -> GD PHP Extension. but it is installed.
i checked the source,

if (preg_match("/bundled \(([\d\.]+) compatible\)/", $gd_version_string, $matches)) {
$gd_version = $matches[1];
} else {
$gd_version = $gd_version_string;
};

returns "2.0 or higher"
where the warning message is triggered


edit:
an option to turn off logo embedding would be cool, so people who have real problems with the pdf logo, could still generate and send out invoices without logo

Hi,

I installed the simpleinvoices in my home PC that is an Ubuntu 9.10 with LAMP and everything works fine, but when I installed in my host server that is Red Hat Enterprise 5.5 the pdf exporting got some issues, when I try to export an invoice to pdf, xls or doc file the invoice lost the logo and also formatting.

I'm not able to use localhost or 127.0.0.1 because I want to use the simpleinvoices in my own domain.

Any tips will be welcome.

Thanks,
Julio

I solved the issue no logo in pdf creating the file .htaccess with following info:
php_value allow_url_fopen on
php_value allow_url_include 1
The file was created inside the path where the htdoc is set, in some case it is in the /var/www, but in my host server it is in my home path at public_html directory.

I observed that in my local PC the parameter allow_url_fopen is enabled, but in my host server it was disabled, this file .htaccess is used to override this info and put the param allow_url_fopen to enabled.

I'm very glad because now I can start to use the simpleinvoice in my small business.

/Julio

thanks Julio!!!

will add this info to the FAQs

cheers

justin

changed php.ini to
Directive Local Value Master Value
allow_url_fopen On On
allow_url_include On On

still no logo :(

btw: i think it's a suboptimal practice to include the logo file via url, better would be to include it via the regular filesystem. urlopen and urlinclude should be/are disabled an a lot of servers due security issues.

Just wanted to add a little more guidance to this and a little explanation.

Assuming that GD is installed and is showing up on your phpinfo file ,
and you have checked that the following is enabled

allow_url_fopen On On
allow_url_include On On

And the logo's and PayPal Link if you use it still dont appear then.....

The problem is that what ever URL you use to access the Simple Invoice system cannot be resolved by the server itself. This is why using the ip address works.

We are using the server in a Lan environment with multiple users all that were accessing the server using http://server.domain.local

the problem was that the Server itself couldnt resolve that address.
Very quick fix is to add to the hosts file of the server the ip address of the domain name you are using. If your using http://localhost this will also work.

Therefore add to your hosts file both locally and the server:

{ip address of server} server.domain.local

If your working on the server itself add the following
(DONT ADD IT IF YOUR ACCESSING FROM ANOTHER PC)

{ip address of server} localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost

Remember the URL address you use to access the site MUST be the same as the domain you put in the hosts file.

This works for both windows servers and linux servers running LAMP.

Hi i am having a problem with my pdf, i went a head and entered some info on my application and when i hit print preview the text is only visible very light when print it it doesnt show up. can some one help?

@tonybalagio

Try checking the stylesheet used to generate the invoice.
It can be found here:
/sys/templates/invoices/default/style.css

Try changing some of the 'color' values.

Matt

Any further on this issue? I am working off my hosting server and have tried everything to get the logo to show on the PDF and still nothing.

@websitu

There are now several issues discussed in this thread. It gets too complicated. Please open up another discussion in this forum. Then we can focus on your problem.

Raffael

The addition of the outside name (invoice.domain.com) to the /etc/hosts file for the local IP and/or loop back IP makes PDF generation faster as well as show the pic. Thanks for the fix! In my case the router in our hosted environment is the cause for this it may be different for others.
Next is to get the darn tick mark (%27) out of the paypal link. I so determined to make this thing work.
As far as using another product....just do it I would rather make this work cause I love open source community based projects. Im no coder but some of these problems are causing me to learn more about web programming. I still rather a Cisco switch or Open Solaris/Ubuntu server though. :)

Another thing I noticed is that this makes the invoice considerably smaller. From 993k to 559K...awesome.