> On Mar 19, 2020 w12d79, at 10:43 AM, Michael Hendry > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 19 Mar 2020, at 13:29, Adrien Monteleone <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Michael, >> >> Out of curiosity, does the built-in print to file (as PDF) or ‘Make PDF' >> features of GnuCash not produce a proper document for you? > > "Print => Print to File" fails - “Operation not supported”.
Sorry, forgot there was a bug (at least on Mac), which is why this error was returned. (to direct the user to use the MakePDF button) > "Make pdf" succeeds, but generates a horizontally split row of characters > across page breaks, like this: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/t345r4ex4wfmjgb/Screenshot%202020-03-19%2015.12.47.png?dl=0 Hmmm... It doesn’t split lines for me on Catalina. I tried several reports. Maybe it’s just a hit and miss thing. > > “Print ==> a selected printer” appears to bypass the Mac’s own printer > drivers, and produces the same horizontally split lines across page breaks. I still don’t understand why GnuCash has its own print (or file) dialog instead of just using a system dialog. I’m sure there are past threads about it and it was explained, I just don’t recall at the moment what the reason is. Perhaps it has something to do with not being a native app. > >> >> Does opening the HTML in a browser or other app not create a proper document >> when saving to PDF via the MacOS print facility? > > That works fine, as does Safari’s "File => Export as PDF…”. > > My conclusion is that the problem arises when GnuCash is dealing with the > pagination. When it is creating an HTML file it doesn’t have to bother with > that aspect, which is dealt with by the browser. > > I chose to go down the shell script route so as to avoid having to (remember > to) open each HTML file in Safari and export to PDF every time I made a > change in a report and exported it to HTML. Yes, that is certainly easier. Regards, Adrien _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
