[GNC] Potential regression: PDFs generated using "Make PDF" have a superfluous blank page

[Adrian Yong]

Hi Adrien,

After speaking to you the last time, I tried exporting documents (ie.
General Ledger) to pdf and xlsx formats and I got gibberish...

I am using version 3.7...

Regards,
Adrian


On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 2:47 AM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> I can confirm this on 3.906 (4.0 beta) using various methods of printing
> invoices. (it doesn’t seem to matter if it is ‘easy’ invoice or not)
>
> I also tried exporting to HTML and then printing to PDF, but that too
> generates an extra page.
>
> I haven’t yet tested with 3.5–3.7 to see what the differences in the HTML
> are.
>
> While I did find some minor syntax issues with the HTML and CSS,
> correcting them didn’t resolve the issue. There doesn’t appear to be
> anything at first glance in the HTML itself that would generate the extra
> page.
>
> Note, GnuCash has a BugZilla instance at https://bugs.gnucash.org
>
> Please create an account and file the bug there.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Jun 29, 2020 w27d181, at 5:31 AM, Yves-Eric Martin <
> yem_lists.gnucash.org at filter.yve.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > (Full bug report below)
> >
> > I am having a PDF issue trying to upgrade from 3.7 to 4.0, but traced the
> > problem back to 3.8. The invoice PDFs generated using "Make PDF" have a
> > superfluous blank page. I first thought the problem may be with my
> heavily
> > customized CSS, but I was able to reproduce the issue with the
> > vanilla invoices (Easy / Printable / Fancy).
> >
> > Any idea what introduced this change? Is a fix needed?
> >
> > And short of manually editing the PDFs, is there a workaround to remove
> > that extra blank page on the GnuCash side, maybe editing some SCM files?
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > Full bug report:
> >
> > GnuCash versions: tested all stable from 3.5 to 4.0
> >
> > OS: MacOS Catalina (10.15.5)
> >
> > Problem: Invoice PDFs generated using "Make PDF" have a superfluous blank
> > page.
> >
> > Versions not affected: 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
> >
> > Versions affected: 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 4.0
> >
> > Steps to reproduce:
> > 1) Create a dummy invoice with a single line
> > 2) Create an Easy Invoice: Reports > Business > Easy Invoice
> > 3) Select the dummy invoice: Edit > Report Options > General > Invoice
> > Number > Select the dummy invoice
> > 4) Make Pdf
> >
> > Expected behavior: The generated PDF has only 1 page.
> >
> > Current behavior (since 3.8): The generated PDF has a superfluous blank
> > page.
> >
> > Comparison of various invoice PDFs, generated with 3.7 and 3.8:
> >
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h8hwhy43uiz9c8m/AADslcR3uJtfXy5Q7GTn6FqVa?dl=0
>
>
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