Printing reports without spliting text across pages

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 8/8/2017 8:47 PM, Jeffrey Black wrote:
> The last post I can find on this is from 2013, and there were no satisfactory
> answers then.
>
> Does anyone know how or of a utility that will allow me to print reports
> without the text splitting in half across page breaks?  PDF does not work
> and besides I can not import it into my documents.  HTML export to a browser
> is not really an option as I need to add these reports to documents in Open
> Office.
>
> Any suggestions other OCR scanning HTML printouts?
>
> --JEffrey Black M.B.A.
Easy, I do this all the time when preparing quarterly reports for the 
boards of the organizations for which I keep books. For the simple 
reason that there is a lot of editing to be done and that is FAR easier 
to do under the control of a general purpose editor than writing scheme 
(custom reports) within gnucash.

steps:
a) Export the RAW report from gnucash. You know have a file in HTML format.
b) Open that, select all, copy.
c) Paste "unformatted" into your text document under open office, 
libreoffice, whatever.
d) Edit to your heart's content.
      Understand, HERE is where you control where pages break, what 
fonts and sizes you want, what zero amounts to purge from the report or 
what levels of details you might need to reporting purposes but the 
board doesn't want to see, add annotations and footnotes and any 
necessary fixed text.

      As a retired rather senior systems analyst, I could of course have 
learned scheme (I can at least read LISP) but an experienced accountant 
told me "Mike, don't bother. Do the editing OUTSIDE of gnuash. Any 
experienced accountant would choose to do it that way using their 
favorite genera purpose editor."

Mike Novack