[GNC] Printing a report splits line of text with page break

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 19:16:48 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> > On May 29, 2018, at 10:06 AM, John Dablin via gnucash-user
> > <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:> 
> > On 29/05/18 17:28, Maf. King wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:12:37 BST John Dablin via gnucash-user wrote:
> >>> I've created a custom transaction report and I want to print it, but
> >>> when I do the bottom line of text on pages after the first is split in
> >>> two, with the bottom half of the characters appearing at the top of the
> >>> next page. Exactly the same thing happens when I export the report as a
> >>> PDF. I've taken a screenshot of part of the PDF to show what I mean, see
> >>> http://www.pennydablin.com/images/screenshot.png
> >>> 
> >>> I'm in the UK printing to A4 paper. A4 is specified in page setup, and
> >>> it doesn't seem to make any difference whether I specify "format for any
> >>> printer" or for my specific printer. I've looked for any options to set
> >>> margins etc, but I haven't found any.
> >>> 
> >>> I'm running Gnucash 2.6.17 on Kubuntu 17.10. However I've had this
> >>> problem with several different versions over the years and ignored it,
> >>> but now I need to give the report to somebody else so I would like to be
> >>> able to fix it.
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks in anticipation for any help.
> >> 
> >> Hi John,
> >> 
> >> I always export the report to HTML, then use firefox to print it.
> >> 
> >> HTH,
> >> Maf.
> > 
> > I'd forgotten you can do that. It took some finding because export as HTML
> > doesn't seem to be in the menu, and the toolbar icon looks like 'reload'
> > rather than 'export'. However it has solved my immediate problem, thank
> > you very much.
> > 
> > It's a bit of a clunky work around, though. I'm not sure how to raise a
> > bug report, but it seems to have been a problem for a long time so I'd be
> > surprised if nobody's reported it already.
> Unfortunately it's a behavior of GtkWebKitWebView, which is what GnuCash
> uses for rendering, displaying, and printing reports. There's no
> immediately practical alternative for us to switch to, so there's not much
> we can do about it.
> 

I will add this is only a problem still on Windows and OS X. On linux we have 
been able to upgrade to a more recent version of GtkWebKitWebView which no 
longer has this issue. Our attempts to upgrade to that same version on Windows 
and OS X have failed so we chose to stick with the older versions there and 
live with this particular bug.

Geert