Gnucash not printing on 6.2

Elizabeth Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Mon Mar 5 04:21:34 EST 2007


On Monday 05 March 2007 14:28, rloefgren at forethought.net wrote:
> All,
>
> I have been using Gnucash for a number of years on FreeBSD. Recently, when
> preparing information for my accountant I learned that my install of
> gnucash would not print. I rarely print anything from GC; only at tax time.
>
> All my other apps print fine, and I can pipe an ls -l to the printer as
> well. I've tried all manners of changes in the print dialog box to no
> avail. Finally, I did a 'portupgrade -a', but that also had no effect. I
> have no idea when this issue came into being; I've been happily upgrading
> since the 1.x series. I picked up a 2.0 port of the net and since then
> I've been massaging the Makefile and distinfo file to agree with the
> particulars of whatever version I'm going to.
>
> 2.0.5 made it's appearance in the ports recently and I re-built it but it
> still doesn't print. I've also tried falling back as far as 2.0.1 to see
> if that would help. Tailing /var/log/messages and /var/log/lpd-errs shows
> nothing.
>
> This is GC-2.0.5 from ports, FBSD-6.2-P1 on an Athlon XP 2600+ 1GB RAM.
>
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> r

I usually print to pdf because I email the invoices. It's worked faultlessly 
(currently using Gentoo and 2.0.1)
If you can print to a ps file or to pdf that will see you able to print.

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