Adjust font size in GnuCash reports?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Jul 16 10:58:07 EDT 2006


You should be able to set the fonts through the gnome control center.

-derek

Andrew Kovacs <mr_k at curl.com.au> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I've been using GnuCash as our dance/social club's accounting system for a 
> couple of years now and it's been great.  Thanks for your efforts to make 
> this possible.
>
> I have been frustrated, however, by my failed attempts to change the 
> appearance of the reports. Both in 1.8.x and 1.9.x (now 2.0 as of yesterday).
> Is there any way to adjust the font sizes (I'm staying with V2.0) of text in 
> the reports.  The fonts on screen are small and neat, but printing is very 
> large, and I'd like to reduce it, so the printed page looks at least a little 
> like the screen html page.
> So far I've been cutting and pasting my monthly reports into OpenOffice Calc, 
> and printing them out that way.  Now that V2.0 doesn't cut the lines in half 
> (horizontally - at the page break), I'd like to print them directly from 
> GnuCash, but I'm still stuck with the huge fonts, so what should be a 1-page 
> report is two or three pages.
> I'm currently running Debian Sid updated at least weekly (a bit flakey during 
> transitions, but mostly good), a stock 2.6.16-2-k7 kernel and KDE 3.5.3.  
> I've also tried GnuCash under Gnome, as it's a GTK application, and I thought 
> there might be some way of adjusting things there, but no luck.  I have found 
> the Gnome Configuration Editor, and plenty of GnuCash settings there, but not 
> for font size (that I could see, anyway).
> I've also been searching the net for Debian font setup information, and have 
> downloaded the Linux Fonts How-To for some light reading :-) (in case the 
> problem is my Debian fonts setup), but nothing seems to provide a solution.  
> All my other applications seem to display and print OK.
>
> So, I thought I'd try here, as you guys are the most familiar with GnuCash.
> I figure I've probably missed something obvious, and any help will be 
> appreciated.
> Bit long-winded. Sorry.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Kovacs
>
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