printer page transitions

[ph hermes]

i just copy the report and paste into excel/ numbers and then can control
page breaks and styles. it's clumsy but it works.

        ph

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 8:13 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:

> | From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
>
> | On Tuesday 28 April 2015 02:19:19 D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>
> | > When we print a report on our laser printer, very often the last line
> | > of a page is split and appears partially on the next page.
>
>
> | The print issue is a bug in the software (reported here [1]). To be more
> precise it is a bug in
> | webkit, which is an external code library gnucash depends on. So far we
> haven't managed
> | to work around this unfortunately.
>
> | [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693363
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> This would seem to be a pretty serious bug.  We may not be able to
> adopt gnucash because of it.
>
> The bugzilla entry has a posting saying:
>
>     nohamnospam 2015-01-02 23:57:26 UTC
>
>         To anyone it may concern: My workaround is
>         1. html-export from gnucash
>         2. wkhtmltopdf -B 10 -L 20 -R 20 -T 10 in.html out.pdf
>
>         So far no splitsies.
>
> Has this been widely tested?  If it works reliably, it is intriguing
> since wkhtmltopdf uses Webkit too.  If wkhtmltopdf can avoid line splits
> with webkit then there is likely a way for GnuCash to avoid line
> splits.
>
> I don't understand the problem well enough to understand why this is
> related to the page-break-* CSS attributes.  I would have thought that
> lines of text would be atomic (either before or after a page break,
> not split by one) without any directives.  But I don't know much
> about HTML.
>
> If this is really a bug in webkit, I guess that the forking by google
> will take some pressure off fixing this.  It there ever had been
> pressure.
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