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

[John Dablin]

On 30/05/18 08:20, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
I hope to upgrade to Kubuntu 18.04 soon, so maybe I'll get the new 
versions then. In the meantime Maf. King's work around has solved the 
problem for me.

Thanks.
John Dablin