Reports again

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 30 18:10:07 EDT 2011


Mike--

My comments about the alpha nature of the software refers to James' comments that the Mac version should be tagged as alpha state software.

David



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From: Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>
To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Reports again


--On August 30, 2011 2:28:16 PM -0700 "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Personally, I wouldn't recommend using Fink or Macports to run
> Gnucash on OS X nowadays. Been there, done that, and found it a real
> challenge. My experience (I've been using Gnucash on my Mac for
> something like 5  years now) is that the Mac dmg download has worked
> consistently well for some time, due in large part to the gargantuan
> efforts of John Ralls. It is by no means an "alpha" product as you
> suggest. With (as far as I know) just a few known issues, it works
> just fine.
> 
> I will grant you that I am not a heavy user of the reports. However,
> I have had no problem printing my reports to a pdf file (and printing
> that) or exporting it to HTML and munging the data as needed.
> Personally, I don't like the reporting engine in Gnucash at all (and
> wish it were a lot easier to use), but I have learned to work around
> it. I do wish formatting and report creation were easier, but to
> suggest that the software package as a whole is alpha state is
> misguided.

I didn't intend to suggest that Gnucash was "alpha" state.  I simply said that I thought the X11 version worked better for me.  Others may disagree and that's fine.  I've tried the Aqua version and it works ok, but I like the X11 version better.

           Mike


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