[GNC] Report ROWS (being badly broken at the bottom of a page)

R. Victor Klassen rvklassen at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 18:32:24 EDT 2018


This is a problem common to many reports, including invoices, which is the use case for which I learned the work-around.  Copying to a spreadsheet really isn’t a great solution after you’ve figured out how to get an invoice formatted the way you want and then after a couple of years generate an invoice with too many lines and it breaks in the middle of a line badly…

That said, the customer for which we had the long invoices is no longer a customer of ours, so I haven’t needed the workaround in years, but I’m reasonably certain it still works.  

The workaround I used was to save the report as HTML and then open it in a browser that respects the tag that tells it not to let that happen.  Yes there is such a tag and it is used in the reports, but it is optional (!) for browsers to respect that tag when generating a print version of the page.  If I recall correctly, Safari is based on the same code as used in GnuCash, and does not respect it, but FireFox does respect it.  I didn’t try Explorer or Chrome, since I had found a solution.  

From the right browser you can send it to the printer or to a PDF writer and get the correct result.  

> On May 23, 2018, at 11:04 AM, davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz wrote:
> 
> I note that when printing a report to a PDF file, the page set up is a bit
> hit and mis when multiple pages.  Some lines of entries span into the footer
> on one page and header of the next giving a split table.  Is there any
> method of having a complete row on one page and the start of a complete row
> on the next page.
> 
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