Printing report

[ph hermes]

i won't stop using gnu cash because the reports split the lines....
heheh.... but it is annoying when i have to try to figure out what the #s
are.

i didn't realize this was an html issue. good to know. and thanks.


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writer ~:~ photographer ~:~ book designer
resident manager
paulahendricks.com

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 3:55 PM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The bit about lines being broken across pages is the result of a decision
> to use html as the interchange format for reports.
> There is a directive in html to prevent this behaviour, however it is
> optional whether browsers/html renderers pay attention to it.
>
> It’s been awhile since I cared, but I do recall that if I saved the report
> and then opened it in the right browser (might have been Firefox at the
> time), that problem goes away.
>
> In general, it is difficult to get html to produce a report that would
> make a type lover/design nerd happy.
>
> The good thing about using html is the high degree of portability it
> affords.
>
> R. Victor Klassen
> rvklassen at gmail.com
> 226-792-0733 <(226)%20792-0733>
>
> On Apr 11, 2017, at 3:03 PM, ph hermes <phsfca.hermes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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...
>
>
> ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:
> writer ~:~ photographer ~:~ book designer
> resident manager
> paulahendricks.com
>
> 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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