Copy image in Reports / Multicolumn reports problems

[yggdrasil at gmx.co.uk]

Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke at gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Johnny,
>
Hi Carsten

> regarding the copy/paste it might be worth trying to export the report
> first and open it with a web browser, the copy/paste from there.
>
Ok, this seems to work, although it would be nice to have it working in
Gnucash. Maybe an update will fix it.

> For the multi-column reports there are some bugs open for it:
>
> "When you have a mix of chart types (bar charts and pie charts) then
> the pie charts do not work if the last chart is a bar chart"
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704525
> This one was found on 2.5.x and might get resolved with 2.6 (work ongoing)

I don't have this issue for now... :)

>
> "Multicolumn report does not show more than one graph"
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638971
> This one is fixed but it is still to be released with 2.6.
>

This is what I am seeing. I'll wait for 2.6 to fiddle with the
multicolumn reports, anyhow I need to tweak my custom reports.

> As far as I understand, starting with 2.5.x Gnuplot will be replaced jqplot.
> So if you want to dig into it, start with 2.5.x.
>

Ok, thanks for the info. I have Gnucash 2.4 as I am still on F16
repos. I should update the system, but hace too many configurations to
feel comfortable yet. 

I am not familiar with joplot at all and couldn't find a good place to
read up on it. What are the advantages to Gnuplot, which seems very
common in Gnu software? 

> And for myself I can say that new reports in the area of statistics
> are highly welcome :-)
>

Some better statistics in Gnucash would certainly be nice, and better
view of investments. But this may be better in a dedicated application?
I have been looking at Grism just today and it does a (very) basic but
decent visualisation of stocks and commodities. I also noticed Merchant
of Venice, but have yet to try it out. 

I have been using the CLI application 'ledger' to get some simple custom
reporting from GnuCash and it is a quite nice combination.

> To get up and running for report writing look at
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports
>

Reading up on this now, thanks for the link!

> Enjoy,
> Carsten
>

Cheers,

Johnny

>
> On 08/10/2013 10:54 AM, yggdrasil at gmx.co.uk wrote:
>> I have made a few custom reports in GnuCash with nice pie charts and
>> want to print these in a nice format. I can't really get GC to scale
>> well, so I resorted to copying the images and pasting into Abiword to be
>> able to fiddle with the formats. However, only 1 image copy/pastes as
>> expected, the others have to be printscreened (multiple copy/pasting
>> results in hte first image being pasted over and over again). Is this a
>> bug, or is it only me?
>>
>> Also, trying multicolumn custom reports, I only get one report to
>> display, the other(s) doesn't generate at all, even though they generate
>> fine as separate images. Is this also only me?
>>
>> Finally, I guess the reports are generated by GnuPlot? Is there a good
>> tutorial available on writing custom reports / graphs? I've been
>> thinking about using ledger to dump financial stats over time and
>> graphing, not sure if this would be feasible to do in GC directly, but
>> being able to tweak plots would nonetheless be great.
>>
>> Thanks and all the best,
>>
>> Johnny
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