I am using Simple Invoices on a LAMP server. The system works very well, apart from the conversion of the invoice data to PDF or DOC formats.

I realise that not everyone will know this invoicing system but I just I suspect the issue might be more to do with my LAMP set up than Simple Invoices.

An example is this:

I input the following into an invoice text box:

The conversion to PDF or DOC formats produces this:

The text appears fine in the invoicing systems display ie in the invoice summary. The problem only occurs during the conversion.

Needless to say that other users are not experiencing the same issue.

Can anyone point me in the right direction of what to look at? Could it be a php setting or something else?

Thanks in advance.

First off, I'm not familiar with any of the software which you're using but maybe I can help... The page that get's converted .. Does it have some custom html markup (maybe in Simple Invoices you can set-up how your invoice will look?)? Errors in parsing HTML might produce such results... But they might also appear in the log files so please check any log files you might have..

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Not familiar either but it appears that SimpleInvoices uses tufat html2ps/pdf php code. Check your apache error_log for errors but I would guess that either the GD library is not installed or configured correctly.

http://www.tufat.com/html2ps-and-html2pdf/

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Thanks for your replies Smokey_justme and michealk. I tried a different invoice template and the problem went away. The template I was using must be broken in some way. I'll have a proper look at it as soon as I have some time to see if I can find the error. In the short term, I'll use a different template.

Many thanks.

You could replace all <br>s with the carriage returns using MS Office (since DOC files are an output option). Using the "Special" button in the "find and replace" option.

I checked open office 3.2.1 and libre office 4.2.7.2 and they don't seem to allow replacing with special characters.

Possibly a free pdf editor may have such a feature.

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