[GNC] Print to file Vs Make Pdf

[Peter West]

On Mac, the system print dialogue includes a write to PDF option, and you can install a CUPS-PDF printer driver. I think there are alternatives as well. Microsoft used to have a Microsoft Print to PDF option for its printer drivers.

Depending on you OS, install one of these, and specify it as you default printer before starting your print from Gnucash.

Peter
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> On 14 Aug 2020, at 6:15 pm, Glen Hawksworth <glenhawx at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, 6:14 pm Geert Janssens, <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Glen,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The change in behaviour comes with the upgrade to webkit2 (which was
>> forced on us due to deprecation of webkit1 on linux distros).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Geert
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Op vrijdag 14 augustus 2020 04:40:19 CEST schreef glenhawx:
>> 
>>> 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 )
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>>> if I clicked "Make Pdf" it would immediately open up a save to PDF dialog
>> 
>>> with the filename generated like this...
>> 
>>> Invoice-000125-07_13_2020.pdf
>> 
>>> ...and then I could append the file name like this...
>> 
>>> Invoice-000125-07_13_2020-Geoff-ZoomaxPart.pdf
>> 
>>> ...to make it more friendly.
>> 
>>> However on my new install, "Make Pdf" does the same thing as "Print",
>> 
>>> allowing me to print to file but with the default name of "output.pdf".
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>>> couldn't figure out what it might be.
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>>> I tried uninstalling and reinstalling GnuCash with LibreOffice installed
>> but
>> 
>>> still no go.
>> 
>>> Has anyone experienced this issue and/or know what I need to do?
>> 
>>> Regards,
>> 
>>> Glen
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> 
>> 
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