Copy image in Reports / Multicolumn reports problems

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Johnny,

On 22-08-13 00:03, yggdrasil at gmx.co.uk wrote:
> Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke at gmx.de> writes:
>
>
>> "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.
This is also fixed in the 2.4 series. I'm pretty sure GnuCash 2.4.13 
doesn't have this problem anymore. I don't think Fedora 16 updated to 
GnuCash 2.4.13 before it ended support, so you probably will have to 
upgrade to a more recent Fedora version to get this fix, or compile 
GnuCash 2.4.13 yourself.
>
>> 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?
jqplot is a javascript framework to generate plots and graphs directly 
in the html document. A few advantages from the top of my head:
- it's pretty self-contained (it only depends on one other javascript 
framework, jquery)
- it make the code cleaner, because the graph generating code is right 
there were it's needed
- it allows for interactive charts (only partly implemented)
- it has more modern looking graphics
- more flexible post-processing: you can export to html, tweak some 
numbers in the html file and the graph will correctly reflect these changes.
- it even has the potential for dynamic graph sizes (not implemented yet 
in GnuCash)

Geert