Printing report

[David Carlson]

I recall that there were a few GnuCash releases that defaulted to A4 page
size but more recently GnuCash has defaulted to US Letter.  When it
defaulted to A4 my HP and Xerox printers would complain about not being
loaded with A4 paper and refuse to print.  Since the two sizes of paper are
so close, I wondered why the printers couldn't be set to 'Shrink to fit"
and print on the opposite size paper.  Those days are over for me, but now
this user has a problem which I also see on letter size paper where long
strings in the description field make the rest of the report spread out
over too much space.  He is not alone.  I have sometimes resorted to saving
reports in PDF format and importing them into Open Office or Libre Office
Calc where there is more flexibility with column formats in order to get a
better page appearance.  If GnuCash had better format defaults that extra
step would not be necessary.

If it is as simple as using File > Page Setup in GnuCash to switch to A4
paper, then this user has his solution.

David C

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> On dinsdag 11 april 2017 10:47:59 CEST Francesco Castoro wrote:
> > >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > >> From: Francesco Castoro <kotido.francesco at gmail.com>
> > >> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 12:29:17 +0300
> > >> Subject: Printing report
> > >> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > >>
> > >> I recently moved gnucash from a desktop running Windows XP to a new
> > >> one with Windows 7 Professional.
> > >>
> > >> Of course everything works properly, except for printing reports,
> because
> > >> the
> > >> column "description" which on print-preview appears regularly, during
> > >> the printing phase it spreads in four rows and this involves a
> > >> considerable waste, especially in the case of accounts very handled
> > >> (cash, banks, some customers etc).
> > >>
> > >> I assume there is need to change fonts, spacing etc.
> > >>
> > >> Thank you very much!
>
> Hi Francesco,
>
> It is exciting to learn gnucash is also being used in Uganda :)
>
> As to your problem I observed the page formats of both scans are different.
> The report from the old PC looks like A4 while the report on your new PC
> appears to be US Letter. Can you verify your printing preferences and make
> sure you are using the same (default) page format ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
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