As an alternative, you could export your reports as HTML. This will give you better control over the formatting and the resulting reports can be navigated by hyperlinks. I am not sure hyperlinks work in a PDF export. Kind Regards, Roger > > Hi, > > Unless your accountant is familiar w/ GnuCash, they usually don't want to > learn another program. > However, you mentioned you give then your report on paper. Why not just get > them a PDF copy? You eliminate the physical copy and they don't have to > worry about loading GnuCash. > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 3:38 PM Simon Roberts < > si...@dancingcloudservices.com> wrote: > >> I'm aware I could work this out for myself, but it could involve a lot of >> wasted time if the answer is no, and this list might have a quick answer >> either way. >> >> At some point, I'll need to submit my books to my CPA. They'll take the >> usual reports (general ledger, trial balance, stuff like that) on paper, >> but is seems that GNC is not that hard to navigate around, and it might be >> worth giving them, or offering them at least, a "live" set of books along >> with GNC to interact with them. >> >> I envisage burning a CDROM with the books, and a Windows distribution of >> GNC, hopefully so they can simply put the disk in and click to run. >> Obviously, the books will be read-only in that event, but they'd be >> navigable. >> >> Has anyone tried this? Is such an installation a possibility? (I'm a Linux >> user, and it's not unusual to run software that's just "sitting around in a >> directory tree", but such is not always possible in windows, so that alone >> might prevent this.). >> >> Anyway, if anyone has thoughts or relevant experience, I'd be pleased to >> hear from you. >> >> Cheers, >> Simon > >> I envisage burning a CDROM with the books, and a Windows distribution >> of GNC, hopefully so they can simply put the disk in and click to run. >> Obviously, the books will be read-only in that event, but they'd be >> navigable. >> >> Has anyone tried this? Is such an installation a possibility? (I'm a >> Linux user, and it's not unusual to run software that's just "sitting >> around in a directory tree", but such is not always possible in >> windows, so that alone might prevent this.). > > > I do it, and the year I didn't provide the .exe file I got asked for > it. That was related to Covid lockdown and sending the files > electronically, instead of my usual CD-ROM > > > Liz >
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