Printing report

[ph hermes]

i'll just jump in here and say i wish there were some more choices in print
reports. my reports often print with page breaks right through a line of
informatio. it often just cuts the line in half. i have to export as csv,
then change all the columns in excel... a very very long process when i
just want to print a report...

i'd love to be able to have page breaks before or after lines of type. i'd
also like to change fonts/ sizes as so many of the reports are big and
ungainly. i know i'm picky as i design books and love type, but still lines
should be all on 1 page or another.

just my 2 cents. many thanks for all you do...


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On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:17 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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