[GNC] Income/Expense report to pdf broken

[John Ralls]

Maybe because Chrome isn’t WebKit. That’s why I asked you to try Gnome Web, which is WebKit.

You’re not the only one with this problem, see https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799461

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Mar 24, 2025, at 20:12, Elliot Huntington <elliot.huntington at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for your response John. I am assuming that when you say to "save the report to HTML and open it with a normal browser" you mean to "Export" and choose the HTML format. So that's what I just tried to do and yes. That worked. I exported the Income/Expense Barchart to HTML. Then I opened the html document in Chrome, and the chart data rendered just fine. Then I opted to print that page inside google chrome and save to PDF. The outcome was to have a successfully generated PDF document with the proper chart data inside it.
> 
> Any ideas why it is necessary to perform this intermediate step to save as HTML and then use Chrome to generate the PDF instead of just having the PDF generation work directly from within GnuCash?
> 
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
>> The graphs are implemented with JavaScript, meaning that the browser (in the case of GnuCash’s report tabs, a GtkWebkitWebView.
>> 
>> If you save the report to HTML and open it with a normal browser does it print to PDF correctly? What if it’s Gnome Web, aka Eclipse?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>> > On Mar 24, 2025, at 19:36, Elliot Huntington <elliot.huntington at gmail.com <mailto:elliot.huntington at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > I'm running Arch Linux with GnuCash.
>> > 
>> > Version: 5.10
>> > Build ID: 5.10-unknown-commit(2025-02-08)
>> > 
>> > When I go to: "Reports -> Income & Expense -> Income & Expense Bar Chart"
>> > I'm successfully able to see the report data just fine. However, when I
>> > select the option to "Make Pdf" and proceed to save the report to a
>> > PDF document on my computer, the report does not export properly to a
>> > PDF document. It does generate a PDF document. But if I leave the printer
>> > settings at the default (meaning portrait mode) then the top half of the
>> > generated PDF document appears solid black and the bottom half of the
>> > document appears solid white. The same happens if I just print the report.
>> > Besides the page margins, the top half of the page is black and the bottom
>> > half is white. If I change the print settings to be in landscape mode, both
>> > the exported PDF document (and the page printed from my printer) both
>> > appear solid white. Nothing prints in the report at all.
>> > 
>> > Now, If I generate other reports and export those to PDF, they work fine.
>> > For example I am able to successfully export the Income Statement, Equity
>> > Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow reports to PDF documents. They
>> > export just fine, and the print just fine.
>> > 
>> > Maybe this has something to do with reports that print charts. I don't
>> > understand why the Income & Expense Bar Chart report will render fine in
>> > the application, but exporting it to a PDF document is broken.
>> > 
>> > Any ideas?
>> > 
>> > Thank you,
>> > Elliot
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