Hi Paul,
Perhaps I should explain how I work with these invoices.
I have a supplier that wants me to invoice them by email with a pdf file. Previously they were printed & posted to them.
When I used to send the printed version, I would print out my blank invoice, the first one I sent, then I would run it through the printer again with my accounts programme using this file, hence it had a lot of backspaces in it to align the text correctly.
This did not work when I tried to overlay this on my invoice to send as a pdf file, hence my first post on how to insert backspaces into a word doc.
Because of this I modified the output of the accounts programme file to try to work. The file we have worked on was the best I came up with, but I had to cut and paste it into the textbox. This was turning out to be a lot of work.
This was the point I sent it to your forum. I did not realise that so much could be done in word, so I thought I would have to use two print files, one for the printer, and one for the pdf files.
Last night I had a dream about all this (sad I know!!!) and woke up thinking that I could use just one print file for both, if the right characters were stripped out.
I still need to use both methods for the foreseeable future, and one print file would save me changing the output of the accounts programme to use the two different methods.
With hindsight I should have sent this file first of all, but this has been long a taxing project for me, and I just did not think. I do apologise for this, and I understand if you do not want to spend any more time on this, as I have taken too much of it already, but would appreciate it if you would.
Kind regards
Swerv
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