benefits of webkit

[Peter]

Phil Longstaff wrote:
> Yes, the benefits will be in reporting.  Reports are created as HTML 
> which are then displayed through an internal browser.  2.2.X uses an 
> older browser which has not kept up with modern web features (most 
> notable, CSS which can be used to control fonts, colors and 
> placement).  Webkit is the html display engine used on Macs in Safari, 
> and on Windows in Google Chrome.  Using webkit, for example, it is (or 
> will be) possible to have reports look much more professional.  There 
> is still some work needed for reports, but you can get some idea by 
> opening a report, opening the report options, then changing the style 
> sheet.  You can create and edit a style sheet (under Edit -> 
> Stylesheets) by creating a new one (e.g. called Peter Reports) using 
> "Default-CSS" as the base.  When you edit the style sheet, you can set 
> fonts for different parts of the report.  Now, change the style sheet 
> in your report options to "Peter Reports" and click OK.  Your report 
> should change to match your fonts, and when you print it, it should 
> also match those fonts. 

> Note that there is a bug on Windows that the report font when printing 
> is *really* small.
>
But who uses this buggy thing anymore (:-
> Phil
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thanks a lot, thats great , I use , by the way the wkhtmltopdf 
<http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/> tool to create pdf from html and 
this works really very well ( including css ) and  it would therefore be 
easy to allow for pdf creation of gnucash reports.
Peter