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LOL. Why did I think I am getting a Invoice from there.

My bad, you can close this one

Go to "Sales Order Inquiry"  (this page gets renamed to "Search All Sales Orders" - why? -
EDIT: see http://mantis.frontaccounting.com/view.php?id=3266, this is a real mess you guys got there but it's easy to fix.)

Click on a print icon and you will get a invoice without the legal text.
Can repeat every time.

Can you please update the Category options to:

* Bug 
* Feature Request
* Change request
* Annoyance 

"Technical change" can mean anything and nothing

Bug  -  problem, unexpected behaviour, something goes wrong if..., UI problem with a browser Y etc.   

Feature Request - request for new feature, new functionality, new language 

Change request  - change something already available to be more effective, usable (this is NOT a bug)

Annoyance  - way application behaves in situation A is really annoying, odd, absurd   - almost a bug but not really, works but pain to use.

Setting up Appache with MySQL has become really simple and you are fine by default settings.

All you really need is just type:
(you need to adjust the commands to your distro/package manager)

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

You also need PHP and this is nothing complicated because you are fine by default installation + FA specific requirements, if any.
All you probably need is :

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5

You can find more detailed instructions that are tailored for your selected distro. Just follow those, line by line and you are done.
Search for:  How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) + what ever distro you use and you are done.

Having invoice numbers as alphanumerical is very common practise and usually only a part of the combination changes (counter).
Why not add this as a option - have a prefix and number.

Looks like in my example, 22 is not a invoice number nor is it a reference number - it's a "transaction number", " Payment #" or "Our Order #" etc.

BTW, reference number is completely different animal at least over here. It's generated by a special algorithm and includes a control number, that can be confirmed by bank. Some accounting systems issue one reference number per client's contract (like a phone service, leasing, loan, etc) , some issue reference number per invoice or "job" (car repair etc). Lets forget this for now  

It looks like Reference number becomes a Invoice number when Invoice is printed. All yo need to do is corr4ect the labels to eliminate this confusion.

Security by obscurity or annoyance is not security If someone has access to my files, file name is the last thing I need to worry about. It's not going to save me nor anyone else.

Problem is that most time I have absolutely no need for a PDF file and PDF files with random names become completely useless after few are generated - I have no idea what they are without opening every single one of them.

Customer and Sales Reports > Reports and Analysis > Customer Balances - why do I need a PDF every time I want to check something?
Can this be made optional? 99.9% I have 0 need for a pdf report. I rather have a html report I can print later, if I have to save it for some reason.

This applies to every report generate from this page.

Cheers!

You tell users not to edit the content of this box.

"prepayment in payment type"

Check your setting from /admin/payment_terms.php

apmuthu, thank you. I can generate PDF's now but content is all messed up.

I did not expect this. UTF-8 is nothing new in this century and used successfully practically everywhere.
I have no idea why FA manages to generate 40 times!!! bigger PDF's when UTF-8 is used. Something is obviously really wrong with the implementation.
I generate PDF's every day with other systems and never seen anything like it. Seriously, this is not even funny.

Can you please write a warning to FA download page that support for UTF-8 is broken. This would have saved me more than a week of my time.