gnucash NOT crashing now

[Maf. King]

Hi,

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On Thursday 17 Nov 2005 22:12, you wrote:
> Maf. King:
> > That sounds like you have "saved" the report - GC really doesn't like it
> > when you save a report with the same name as the original.  This crops up
> > on the list every so often, IIRC you have to delete a file called
> > saved-reports - which may be in your home, or home/.gnucash (can't
> > remember.  have a hunt & I'm sure you will find it)
>
> Found it at ~/home/.gnucash    deleted that file and all is well again. Why
> does gnucash create those files in the first place? What's their purpose,
> the saved-reports-1.8 file?
>

Well, you can save reports ;-) ! 
If you save your whistles-and-bells-report with a different name than the 
original, all is well.  GC gets a bit confused if it has 2 reports of the 
same name. that's all.

> > > 3. Attempts at printing some other things, invoices sometimes
> >
> > I think that is the same problem as the saved-reports issue above. Have
> > you saved the printable invoice before printing it?
>
> With some of the files, I saved them , Save Report, with others no, just
> created the invoice and then printed it out, or printed to a PDF file.
> Here's the rub though with the .pdf file creation. I create a .pdf invoice,
> and then close and exit gnucash, and then I open the .pdf using xpdf and
> also acrobat. The files open great for me, yet when I sent them to
> clients/customers, I get complaints: The .pdf only opens the first half
> page, then it's gibberish, or only first page arrives, rest of it is
> truncated. blah blah blah...
>
> I figured sending a .pdf would be the most compatible way of sending an
> invoice document, but it's causing frustration with some clients.
>
> Suggestions on output?

Hmm. Don't know about that.  I always figured that if acrobat-for-penguins 
would open the file, then acrobat-for-otherOS would be fine too. I don't use 
GC to print invoices, but whenever I print reports, I export to HTML and use 
firefox to do the actual printing, due to various bugs in the gnome1-print 
routines.  Maybe you are hitting something similar?  What about 
font-embedding issues? (now this _is_ 2-cent thinking aloud stuff)  

>
> > That happens if you have set your customer's payment terms at the invoice
> > creation dialog - eg to 30 days.  If that is not set, then you can change
> > the payable date whilst posting the invoice
>
> That changed it as well for the due date...thank you thank you thank
> you!!!!!!!
>

Yeah - it wasn't clear to me if you were talking about vendors or customers - 
but since the two are handled almost exactly the same within GC, I figured it 
would make sense eventually...

Cheers,
Maf.

> Scott