[GNC] GNUCash 3.0: Report Printing problems

[Adrien Monteleone]

Geert,

Just so we’re clear, at least for me, and it seems what’s being reported in this thread, there is NO direct printing functionality. We only have PDF export.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 10, 2018, at 8:53 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op woensdag 4 april 2018 22:19:33 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone:
>> I see I have both as well. Perhaps removing it didn’t make it into the final
>> commit.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
> As I commented on one of the bugs that got marked as a duplicate we need to 
> distinguish between linux systems on the one hand and OSX and Windows on the 
> other.
> 
> For linux we moved to webkit2, which no longer exposes an easy function to 
> print to pdf. Our intention was to move to webkit2 on Windowss and OS X as 
> well, but due to technical issues this hasn't happened for the 3.0 release 
> (and I don't know if we ever will be able to - webkit2 won't build on those 
> systems).
> 
> As we were migrating to webkit2, we found the missing pdf feature and amended 
> the code to simply display the print dialog in both cases. Only then we came 
> to the conclusion webkit2 wasn't going to happen on Windows and OS X and had 
> to revert parts of the code. I suspect we mixed up there which leads to the 
> current situation on Windows and OS X.
> 
> Geert
> 
>