[GNC] Print to file Vs Make Pdf

Glen Hawksworth glenhawx at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 04:15:52 EDT 2020


Thanks for the info.

On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, 6:14 pm Geert Janssens, <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Hi Glen,
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>
>
> The change in behaviour comes with the upgrade to webkit2 (which was
> forced on us due to deprecation of webkit1 on linux distros).
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>
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> The newer webkit2 no longer provides the option to generate a pdf directly
> from a report. So as a workaround we chose to fall back to opening the
> print dialog. As this was essentially just replicating the print option
> itself, the make pdf option has been removed in later versions. It may
> still be in 3.4, but somewhere in the 3.x series it got completely removed.
>
>
>
> It is a loss of functionality unfortunately, but it would take more effort
> to work around this than any of the contributors has been willing to spend
> on it so far. We did look, but didn't find an easy solution.
>
>
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> Regards,
>
>
>
> Geert
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> Op vrijdag 14 augustus 2020 04:40:19 CEST schreef glenhawx:
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> > TL:DR - Linux Version of GnuCash v3.4: "Print" and "Make PDF" now do the
>
> > same thing on my new install. Do I need an extra plugin or something so
>
> > that "Make PDF" saves directly to pdf without "printing" and generates a
>
> > filename from the Invoice number and date? (like it used to for me )
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> >
>
> > Hi to all my "Gnu" friends,
>
> > I recently needed to reinstall GnuCash on a fresh install of linux on my
>
> > chromebook (I have been using GnuCash on my chromebook for about a year
> and
>
> > a half) and I'm having some issues with the "Make PDF" feature.
> Previously
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> > if I clicked "Make Pdf" it would immediately open up a save to PDF dialog
>
> > with the filename generated like this...
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> > Invoice-000125-07_13_2020.pdf
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> > ...and then I could append the file name like this...
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> > Invoice-000125-07_13_2020-Geoff-ZoomaxPart.pdf
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> > ...to make it more friendly.
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> > However on my new install, "Make Pdf" does the same thing as "Print",
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> > allowing me to print to file but with the default name of "output.pdf".
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> > I have tried to find a solution online and by tinkering for a few days
> now
>
> > and I'm stuck. I thought maybe I was missing a dependency or something
> but I
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> > couldn't figure out what it might be.
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> > I knew that LibreOffice had a similar PDF export feature so I tried
>
> > installing that. The "export as PDF" worked as expected but still not in
>
> > GnuCash.
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> > I tried uninstalling and reinstalling GnuCash with LibreOffice installed
> but
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> > still no go.
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> > Has anyone experienced this issue and/or know what I need to do?
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Glen
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> >
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