benefits of webkit

[Phil Longstaff]

I think it's a bug in Webkit for Windows, rather than an bug in GnuCash.  My evidence is that it happens on windows and not on linux.  My guess is that when the font size is specified as 10pt, it displays as 10pt but prints as 10px (pixels), which on a 600dpi (or more) printer is 1/60 inch.

The version of webkit (actually, webkitgtk) for windows that we are using is 1.1.5 which was I got from someone on the internet.  I've been trying to build with a more recent version of webkit but have run into build problems (mingw32 /win32 is not their top priority).  Now that 2.3.8 with most/all of the sql fixes is ready to go (I just need to upload the win32 setup.exe file and send out release notes), I will try to fix this over the Christmas holidays.

Phil




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From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>
Sent: Wed, December 9, 2009 9:27:53 AM
Subject: Re: benefits of webkit

On Monday 7 December 2009, 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.
>
This printing problem, is that a case of GnuCash using Webkit improperly, or 
is this a bug in Webkit for Windows ? Just curious. I couldn't deduce this 
from your formulation.

Geert