[GNC] Income/Expense report to pdf broken

[Elliot Huntington]

Wanting to be helpful to the community, I installed the epiphany package to
try testing with Gnome Web as you suggested John. That browser was
successfully able to render the exported HTML report. However, when used
"CTRL+P" to print the page and save it as a PDF document, I can confirm
that again, the rendered PDF document just contained the black box.

I'm happy to know about the work around to get the PDF from chrome.

Hopefully this input/feedback will be useful to the community.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM Elliot Huntington <
elliot.huntington at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know how GnuCash is loading the GtkWebKitWebView, but I wonder if
> this stack overflow thread might be helpful?
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/q/71734719/328275
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM Elliot Huntington <
> elliot.huntington at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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