[GNC] PDF export of reports

[Raimund Strehl]

If I am not mistaken the same problem occurs when printing the report from Gnucash using print to pdf or to a printer. I think this is an issue that should have high priority as the export and print functions are rendered unusable by this.
Any coders listening in here?  :-)
Raimund

Raimund
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From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
Sent: Saturday, 26 January 2019 09:50
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: Tommy Trussell; Raimund Strehl
Subject: Re: [GNC] PDF export of reports

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 but still affects Windows due to an outdated software "library" outside the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.

Other than that you're dead on.

Regards,

Geert