What version of Invoice Ninja are you running? ie v4.5 / v5
v5
What environment are you running?
Self Hosted VPS
Have you searched existing issues/requests?
Yes
Screenshots
N/A
Additional context
There was a recent discussion on Slack about the PDF/A format around PDF integrity.
A number of countries require that electronic documents are tamper proof (Germany for sure and the UK - although the latter has watered down its original view - link below). Normal PDFs are relatively easy to edit. As part of that discussion some code was made available by Benjamin to be run in a cron job but this approach allows for the possibility that the invoice is viewed/downloaded by the client before the job is run.
I propose that IN has has a post PDF processing "slot" that could contain the details of a script to be run immediately after IN generates the PDF as part of that process.
Also this way, one could email the PDF directly without worrying that it has been processed to PDF/A.
The key phrases here are "authenticity of the origin" and "integrity of content" - typical UK nice and woolly, open to interpretation phrase. I was speaking to the accountant for a client only this week about this very issue and they were unaware of this document!!!
beganovich
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3 years ago
What version of Invoice Ninja are you running? ie v4.5 / v5 v5
What environment are you running? Self Hosted VPS
Have you searched existing issues/requests? Yes
Screenshots N/A
Additional context There was a recent discussion on Slack about the PDF/A format around PDF integrity.
A number of countries require that electronic documents are tamper proof (Germany for sure and the UK - although the latter has watered down its original view - link below). Normal PDFs are relatively easy to edit. As part of that discussion some code was made available by Benjamin to be run in a cron job but this approach allows for the possibility that the invoice is viewed/downloaded by the client before the job is run.
I propose that IN has has a post PDF processing "slot" that could contain the details of a script to be run immediately after IN generates the PDF as part of that process.
Also this way, one could email the PDF directly without worrying that it has been processed to PDF/A.
The link to HMRC's (UK taxman) document is https://www.gov.uk/guidance/electronic-invoicing-notice-70063#conditions-for-electronic-transmission
The key phrases here are "authenticity of the origin" and "integrity of content" - typical UK nice and woolly, open to interpretation phrase. I was speaking to the accountant for a client only this week about this very issue and they were unaware of this document!!!
HTH