Printing reports without spliting text across pages

Anita Graves anitagraves at mac.com
Wed Aug 9 10:43:54 EDT 2017


Jeffrey, I failed to say that I use a Mac, not Windows and not a pc.  I don’t know if that makes a difference.  I think not.  Anita

> On 9 Aug 2017, at 5:42 PM, Anita Graves <anitagraves at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Jeffrey, I suggest you change your print image to about 97% in your print program.  That worked for me.  Anita
> 
>> On 9 Aug 2017, at 5:37 PM, Jeffrey Black <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 9 August 2017 at 11:31, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash@> wrote:
>>> On woensdag 9 augustus 2017 02:47:52 CEST 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.
>>>> 
>>> The good news is that in gnucash 2.8 this will no longer be an issue. The
>>> more
>>> recent webkit2 being used does properly handle page breaks.
>>> 
>>> The bad news is our Windows version of gnucash 2.8 will stick with webkit1
>>> as
>>> webkit2 is not available there. So unfortunately on Windows the page
>>> breaks
>>> will continue to be borked. For now there is no solution to this.
>> 
>> Other than the obvious one to not use Windows.
>> That may sound like a flippant comment, but actually it is not
>> difficult to move to something like Ubuntu unless you absolutely need
>> an application that is only available on Windows. I did it some years
>> ago and have never regretted it. It is great to feel that one is back
>> in control of one's PC again.
>> 
>> Colin
>> _______________________________________________
>> 
>> As you and Geert pointed out moving to a Unix based system would be the
>> smart thing to do, for many reasons.  Unfortunately I am still stuck with
>> some legacy WidoZe apps for which there are no replacements, yet.  Once I
>> can find suitable replacements for them I will happily remove the only
>> legally available computer virus in the world from my computer and go
>> strictly with a UNIX box.  
>> 
>> You have no idea how happy I was when I discovered GnuCash and it's very
>> unrelated distant cousin GnuCash for Android.
>> 
>> Since I do not want to take a chance on wiping my windows boot drive just
>> yet I think I will take your suggestions and try running a copy of Ubuntu in
>> a VMware box and printing reports from there.  Simple enough to get access
>> to a copy of my data files.
>> 
>> Thanks for the idea.
>> 
>> --JEffrey Black M.B.A.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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