Gnucash 2.2.1 won't print

[David Reiser]

On 26 Sep 2007, at 8:16:43 PM, Gilles Gariepy wrote:

> Marc & the list,
>
> I struggled for quite a bit of time to reload gnucash via Macports. No
> matter what I tried (and I tried everything), there was always some
> dependency or another that wouldn't load. I finally removed  
> Macports and
> successfully installed gnucash via Fink.
>
> However, now when I try to print a cheque, which was the original  
> source of
> my problem, the print dialog does not recognize my attached  
> printers. Is
> there something I need to do via gnucash or xcode?

The current version in fink uses gnomeprint, since the gtk+ version  
is not recent enough to use gtkprint. My experience with printing  
from anything using that vintage of gnomeprint is that none of the  
printers show up in the print dialog. But if you select Generic  
Postscript in the print dialog, then gnucash will print to the Mac's  
default printer (even if it isn't a postscript printer).

Gtkprint is worse, because it doesn't play well with Apple's cups  
libraries. So you have to build gtk+ with the lpr backend and use  
that to get any printing out of newer gnome applications (anything  
using gtkprint) at all.

>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Gilles
>
>
> On 9/13/07 5:44 PM, "Marc André Selig" <mas at macports.org> wrote:
>
>> On 9/13/07, Gilles Gariepy <gariepy.g at videotron.ca> wrote:
>>> I did the selfupdate, uninstalled gnucash and then tried to re- 
>>> install it.
>>> This is the error message(s) I get:
>>>
>>> --->  Configuring avahi
>> [...]
>>> checking for python module gtk... no
>>> configure: error: Could not find Python module gtk
>> [...]
>>> I wish I understood this more. Seems to be a problem with avahi.  
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> You are perfectly right: It is a problem with avahi, which cannot  
>> find
>> the gtk module for python.
>>
>> Up until yesterday, avahi tried to install the port "py25-gtk2" to  
>> get
>> this module.  Unfortunately, that port is really called "py25- 
>> gtk".  I
>> fixed this yesterday by changing the Portfile for avahi, but the
>> change does not seem to have propagated to your system.  You can
>> verify this by typing "port deps avahi", which will probably still
>> list py25-gtk2.
>>
>> You could try the following to get on with it without having to wait
>> for some MacPorts server to pick up the news:
>>
>> sudo port install py25-gtk
>> sudo port clean avahi
>> sudo port install gnucash
>>
>> I.e. install the missing python bindings manually, then clean out
>> avahi and try again.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marc
>
>
>
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