[GNC] Invoice layout changed upon upgrade from 4.13 to 4.14

John W. O'Brien john_gnucash-user at radioprosciutto.org
Mon Apr 17 19:20:52 EDT 2023


Hello GnuCash users,

I routinely print invoices to PDF. To help ensure quality and 
consistency in the output, I have tuned both the "default" style sheet 
and the report layout I use to generate these invoices. On multiple (low 
single digits) macOS machines (Monterey 12.6.5, mix of Intel and Apple 
Silicon), I sync the GnuCash data and config via an ownCloud instance.

A side-effect of installing the upgrade from 4.13 to 4.14 was that the 
report "Options->Layout->Row 1 Left" setting changed from "Company name, 
address and tax ID" [0] to "Empty space" [1]. I suspect this change is a 
consequence of:

     Bug 798717
     Reports > Business > Fancy Invoice duplicates company details

My concern and uncertainty is about whether this bug fix should have 
affected a configuration derived from canned report specifically to 
affix the layout, where the derived configuration is no longer clearly 
tied to the original, canned report. I would not expect that installing 
a minor update would result in a change this substantial. Am I missing 
something, should I be reporting this as a regression against 798717, 
does this seem like a new bug, or something else?

Thank you,
John

PS: I wasn't sure if the mailing list would accept PNG attachments, 
which is why I posted them separately.

[0] https://babble.saltant.net/59e0374b8f46b869/before-4.13-redacted.png
[1] https://babble.saltant.net/59e0374b8f46b869/after-4.14-redacted.png


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