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

[John W. O'Brien]

Hi Adrien,

Re: mailing list -- Thank you for clarifying the attachment situation. 
In the future, I would find it most convenient if you CC me in your 
response (see also: Reply-To), because I am most likely to notice direct 
responses in a timely manner compared to bulk mailing list messages.

Re: my question --

 > I would think saved configurations should not change in such a
 > circumstance, so perhaps this is an additional bug.

Exactly. You have immediately grasped the essence of my inquiry.


I am glad to hear about the new capabilities in 5.0. I am not planning 
to upgrade to 5.x immediately, so I look forward to enjoying them.


On 4/18/23 20:03, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> The mailing list does accept attachments, but not inline images.
> 
> Of course, linking to outside file services is fine too.
> 
> As to your question, are you saying:
> 
> You have saved report configurations that now don't display properly 
> because of this change?
> 
> I would think saved configurations should not change in such a 
> circumstance, so perhaps this is an additional bug.
> 
> *note, in 5.0, you can now set a Saved Configuration as the default for 
> all invoices.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 4/17/23 6:20 PM, John W. O'Brien via gnucash-user wrote:
>> 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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