[GNC] PDF export of reports

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 1/26/2019 10:57 AM, Raimund Strehl wrote:
> 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
Not EXACTLY unusable (export and print)

What you mean is that you can't do this DIRECTLY from gnucash. You have 
to first export, perhaps into a format other than the final format you 
want, convert that to another format, and print.

<< In other words, leaving aside gnucash for a moment, if you had some 
document (not now a PDF) and you wanted that to be a PDF and you wanted 
to print that PDF, how would you go about it. And if you can't answer 
that immediately, if you had to learn to do some things first, THAT is 
your real problem. Probably most of us who end up producing PDF 
documents do not create them with a PDF capable word processor (Adobe 
does not give THAT out for free) >>

Mind, I do not consider having to go through some process like that 
extra work. The "finished product" (the financial reports) that as 
treasurer I hand out to the directors at a meeting are NOT the raw 
reports as coming out of gnucash. As treasurer, needing to also report 
to various authorities, I need different levels of detail. And I want 
the reports the boards look at to be "pretty printed" (maybe different 
things in different size fonts, some things bold, annotations added, 
etc.). In other words I want to be using a full feature editor, unfair 
to expect gnucash to provide that internally.

Were I just producing personal printouts, I might resent the extra steps 
more.

Michael D Novack