Pretty reports

[Paula Hendricks]

i have struggled with this as well... i find them clunky and ugly, although they do provide the right numbers.

i save them as either html or pdf... and then work from there.... sometimes you can save them as csv, i think.

there is no easy way to set it up and then have it report nicely... or even break between lines when a page breaks... i have learned in some reports how to add footers/ headers and which options are best (these are usually the transaction reports)... but as a book designer, i, too, cringe at the layouts.

all the work arounds take a fair bit of time...

but i do thank the gnu cash crew for doing the basics well -- the numbers crunching! yay! and for being so helpful all the time.

	ph

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On Apr 29, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Vegar Hatlevik wrote:

> Hi Derek,
> 
> Thanks for the insight. Indeed the options in the style sheets editor are
> rather limited. Is there a way to manually edit the style sheets, say in a
> text editor?
> 
> Kind regards
> Vegar Hatlevik
> 
> 
> On 29 April 2013 19:38, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Vegar Hatlevik <vegar.hatlevik at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am new to gnucash and so far I like it, but i cringe at the layout of
>> the
>>> Customer Report. This is the report which I will be sending out to
>>> customers on a regular basis, in addition to the invoices, and I want it
>> to
>>> look neat and professional.
>>> 
>>> How can I change the formatting, alternatively insert preformatted
>>> letterheads as images? I don't need anything fancy. Just changing text
>> and
>>> table formatting. Of course I could save the report to html file and
>> apply
>>> a style sheet, but that is a rather clunky solution.
>> 
>> Short of the GnuCash Stylesheets, there are very few options for
>> "prettifying" the reports, and even fewer for significantly adjusting
>> the layout.  Often you can adjust *what* is reported through the report
>> options, but rarely can you easily control *how* it is
>> reported/displayed.
>> 
>> The e-guile report system was supposed to help this by letting you
>> provide your own HTML template for the report, but very few reports have
>> migrated over to e-guile.
>> 
>> Alas, I don't have any additional suggestions for you,
>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> Vegar Hatlevik
>> 
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>> 
>> -derek
>> 
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