Printing problem in Income Statement report

Sun Feb 10 19:51:21 EST 2013

On 2/10/2013 12:11 PM, David T. wrote:
> Others have reported something like this in the past under Windows, but as I don't use Windows, I didn't pay much attention to the solutions they found, and I couldn't turn anything up with some searches. Perhaps someone involved with the past threads can comment.
>
> David
>
> On Feb 10, 2013, at 7:42 AM, "Scumbuster" <scumbuster at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Figured out that I could export the report as an HTML and print it thru
>> firefox....
>>
>> So have a fix I guess.
>>
>> Still, shouldn't I be able to print using the "print" button?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gnucash-user-bounces+scumbuster=comcast.net at gnucash.org
>> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+scumbuster=comcast.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf
>> Of Scumbuster
>> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 9:03 AM
>> To: 'David Carlson'; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Printing problem in Income Statement report
>>
>> Well, finally getting back to this -
>>
>> So I generated a report using the Income Statement....
>>
>> Try to print it and my printer just gives me the "complete" tone (HP all in
>> one).
>>
>> I can print fine from other apps.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks all
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gnucash-user-bounces+scumbuster=comcast.net at gnucash.org
>> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+scumbuster=comcast.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf
>> Of David Carlson
>> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 10:34 AM
>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: Year end category reporting
>>
>> On 2/2/2013 6:05 AM, Scumbuster wrote:
>>> Thanks very much...this appears to be what I am looking for.
>>>
>>> Question, though -- in quicken I was able to select all my accounts 
>>> and their children levels and do one big printout.....
>>>
>>> When I tried that in gnucash ,even though I selected "children 
>>> accounts", some accounts showed up as "0".....for instance, "Tax" , 
>>> for me , has multiple types of taxes...state sales tax, etc.....but 
>>> even though there is a dollar amount in each, the report shows "zero".
>>> I used the max number of levels shown (6) and selected " children".....
>>>
>>> Is there a limit on how many levels and accounts can be shown at once?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gnucash-user-bounces+scumbuster=comcast.net at gnucash.org
>>> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+scumbuster=comcast.net at gnucash.org] On 
>>> Behalf Of David
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:54 AM
>>> To: Dave Sergeant; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Re: Year end category reporting
>>>
>>> I would recommend the Income Statement. Be sure to note that you set 
>>> report options *after* you initially run the report.
>>>
>>> The OP may want to read up on using the tax reporting features. I 
>>> surmise from his email address that he's in the U.S...
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _____________________________________________
>>> From: Dave Sergeant <dave at davesergeant.com>
>>> Sent: Sun Jan 27 07:34:13 PST 2013
>>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Re: Year end category reporting
>>>
>>>
>>> Does Reports/Income&Expense/CashFlow do what you want? If you click on 
>>> the Options button at that page you can specify the date range or set 
>>> it to your accounting period. You can specify the accounting period 
>>> from the edit/preferences/accounting period.
>>>
>>> New user here as well..
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On 27 Jan 2013 at 10:15, Scumbuster wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyhoo, I am trying to figure out the best way to generate and print 
>>>> a report that will list the sum totals of all "accounts" (which would 
>>>> have been categories in quicken) so I can see where the money went.
>>>>
>>>> I use this report for taxes -- ie medical, auto costs, etc.
>>>>
>>>> I have figured out how to do a report of the accounts but it is for 
>>>> the entire timespan of all my records which I had imported.
>>>>
>>>> How can I specify a date-range in these reports?
>>>>
>>> http://www.davesergeant.com
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry, my mail client put this message into the middle of the thread, so I
>> didn't see it right away.
>>
>> Selecting accounts gets tricky sometimes.  The select children button only
>> works for children that would be visible when you scroll up or down the list
>> as you are currently viewing it.  At the top of the accounts window there is
>> a selector for Account display depth.  You may need to set that to a higher
>> number to work with your chart of accounts before hitting select children.
>> For the Cash flow report this selects the accounts that I would call your
>> wallet.  Then the report shows 'comes in from' and 'goes out to' for your
>> selected wallet.  For the default, the report chooses the accounts listed at
>> the top of the report.  If you spend from credit cards, for example, you
>> would need to add those credit cards to the selected accounts.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> David C
>>
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Here's the link to the most likely source of your problem.  Since it
appears to be a problem with either IE9 or the windows OS, the
developers are not able to fix it.  The solution is in comment #40.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645273#c40

David C
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