Make your beautiful invoice with LaTex

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Create beautiful invoices with LaTex and dapper template

Requirement

  • Texlive
      yay -S texlive-most
    
  • Text editor (vscode)

Template: dapper-invoice

  1. Fork the template is you want to make modifications
  2. Clone your fork on your computer :

    git clone https://github.com/VincentFrangi/dapper-invoice
    
  3. Compile the example

    cd dapper-invoice
    make
    evince example.pdf # Open the example
    make clean # Clean output files
    

Create your invoice

  1. Create your invoice

    cp example.tex invoice-1.tex
    
  2. Modify the makefile

    Change REPORT = example with REPORT = invoice-1

  3. Edit your invoice

     code invoice-1.tex
    
  4. Build your PDF

     make
    
  5. Check your PDF

     evince invoice-1.pdf
    
  6. Clean files

     make clean
    

I suggest to not push your invoices on your public repository Keep the .tex and PDF files somewhere safe