Gnucash v2.0.5 on Fink - Printing blank invoices

Graham Leggett minfrin at sharp.fm
Thu May 17 12:38:51 EDT 2007


On Thu, May 17, 2007 6:00 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Well...  There are the scheme reports which form a scheme structure
> that uses the stylesheets to convert everything into HTML.  This HTML
> is then fed into GtkHTML for display.  GnuCash also adds hooks to
> GtkHTML to handle the GoG images and back-calls for things like
> opening up account registers or looking at invoices by clicking on
> hyperlinks in reports.

Ok, makes sense.

> Well...  We've discussed other options.  One potential approach is to
> change out GtkHTML for something like Gecko.  Granted, this would add
> a build dependency on Mozilla, which might suck for those building
> from sources..  But it's at least something to think about as an
> option.  I have no idea how that would affect building on Win32 or
> Mac.  But if you want to look into that (or other HTML renderers), I'd
> certainly encourage you!  As would other devs!  :)

Some introductory digging has uncovered GtkMozEmbed which looks promising:

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/gtk-embedding.html

Regards,
Graham
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