[GNC] Income/Expense report to pdf broken

[Elliot Huntington]

Okay. Thank you for referencing the bug ticket. That's helpful. I don't
have Gnome Web installed, and I'm not using the Gnome desktop environment.
Sorry I didn't try that specific browser. I really appreciate you John. The
work around you provided is really useful. Thank you.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> 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> 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> 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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