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print and filling information - 3/10/2017 3:52:19 PM   
layzeerudy

 

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Status: offline 		How do I add information into the invoice part of the forum and also how do I print it out
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RE: print and filling information - 3/10/2017 3:59:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not sure what template you are using so I am going to show you an example. I am using a template called Blue Header Invoice.

If you double click on the form portion of this template, a cursor appears next to item description. If I press enter (1 time I think), It moves the cursor to allow typing in the form. Press enter for the next column, etc. Other forms may work in a similar fashion.

To print, click the home tab and click the print button.




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RE: print and filling information - 3/11/2017 2:59:26 AM   
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ORIGINAL: layzeerudy
How do I add information into the invoice part of the forum [sic]

Some of the invoice form templates are (IMHO) badly designed, made up of numerous colored shapes that are awkward to fill in with text. On this particular template, you double-click inside the colored rectangle which then allows you to enter text. (Text in Shape feature) I changed the alignment from center to left, changed the font size to fit, then started typing. I had to add spaces to make the words appear in the correct "column". In a pinch, you could fill in this form in this way. As a professional desktop publishing designer, I find this inelegant.




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RE: print and filling information - 3/11/2017 3:28:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Forms should be designed with a TABLE, and then we can easily double-click in each cell to add text. Here is an example of a table. You can apply background colors to cells. You can apply right or left alignment to the cells. It's easy to add/remove columns and rows. It may take some time to set up your table with the formatting you want, but then you can reuse the table over and over again by editing the contents of the cells.




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... and also how do I print it out

For many of these form templates, I found that it took a very long time for the print job to spool. Probably because there are so many individual items on the page e.g. all those colored rectangles, all those line segments, and all the individual text boxes. Each item is on its own layer. So you have a project with perhaps over 30 items and layers!

So after you hit Print, go get yourself a coffee. When you come back, the print should start

In contrast, my table prints very quickly because it is one item on one layer.

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RE: print and filling information - 3/11/2017 4:33:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, Jason,

You clicked on the large white rectangle, so your center aligned text is being added inside that. It's quite difficult to then align the text with the "rows" and "columns". This is due to the flawed form design. However, I just realized that these templates were designed BEFORE the table tool was available. The table tool came out after version 2.0, if I recall correctly.

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RE: print and filling information - 3/11/2017 9:26:23 AM   
ellengard


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Status: offline 		I created my own invoice template using tables. It is only 350 KB. It can be customized. I added logo placeholders and a gradient background which can easily be removed.
download the PSproj file from my website



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RE: print and filling information - 3/11/2017 12:07:23 PM   
JasonC

 

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ORIGINAL: lindarobin

Hi, Jason,

You clicked on the large white rectangle, so your center aligned text is being added inside that. It's quite difficult to then align the text with the "rows" and "columns". This is due to the flawed form design. However, I just realized that these templates were designed BEFORE the table tool was available. The table tool came out after version 2.0, if I recall correctly.


Thanks :) It is strange how it is designed, I was scratching my head figuring out why the formatting was off. Clicking on the spacing and padding buttons seemed to make it worse.

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