[GNC] PDF export of reports

[Jay Ridgley]

On 1/26/19 2:50 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op zaterdag 26 januari 2019 00:40:11 CET schreef Tommy Trussell:
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:57 PM Raimund Strehl <raimund.strehl at novamar.de>
>>
>> wrote:
>>> PDF export has a flaw.
>>> I have tested this on several Windows 10 machines on Gnucash 2.6 and
>>> 3.2/3.4.
>>>
>>> Reports export fine to PDF, but at page transitions it can happen, that a
>>> line of text gets cut in half.
>>>
>>> First half is on the end of one page and other half is at the start of
>>> next page.
>>>
>>> This seems to happen independently of page size settings. If the lines in
>>> the report /e.g. general ledger report by chance match with the space
>>> available on the page it looks fine on that page,
>>> but on the next page it can run into the problem.
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Any ideas for a solution or a workaround??
>>>
>>> As it is now, I have to export as HTML, import in Excel and then print a
>>> useable PDF with clean page transitions
>>
>> This is a known bug, and the good news is you already know the workaround!
>> (Export as HTML, open the report in a web browser or some other program and
>> print to PDF from there.) You'll find that it probably also affects reports
>> sent to a printer.
>>
>> I believe the bug has been addressed in NON-Windows versions of GnuCash,
>> but still affects Windows due to an outdated software "library" outside the
>> control of GnuCash developers.
> 
> Unfortunately it's only addressed for linux. On MacOS we have the same issue.

Geert,

What version of of Ubuntu contains the fix? I am running 2.6.12 under 
Ubuntu 16-04.5 LTS.

Thanks,
Jay
> 
> Other than that you're dead on.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
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