Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
You might export as CSV and print it from excel, Google Sheets, libreOffice Sheets or as a spreadsheet into table in a word processing document. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That is installed by default in Ubuntu for many years now. I would suspect the same is true of its various flavors. Regards, Adrien On 3/6/24 4:17 AM, Alan Hopkins wrote: You just need CUPS-PDF installed as a print driver for producing pdf files.

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Chris, LibreOffice uses Draw for PDF editing, not Writer. That doesn't mean the text isn't text. Everything is essentially in various text boxes. But having used it quite a bit, I can attest it is way more of a pain for large edits than either HTML or using Calc. For a small change though,

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Kalpesh Patel
If are you going from HTML to PDF then that sounds like the method employed by that converter and not GNC itself. Once you run the report, if you look at the top of the report window, there is 'Make PDF' button/icon (at least I see it on Windows version of it). Pressing that should save it as a

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
You just need CUPS-PDF installed as a print driver for producing pdf files. On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 9:12 pm Alan Hopkins, wrote: > Glad to hear it > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 8:43 pm Chris Green, wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:01:36PM +1100, Alan Hopkins wrote: >> > Chris >> > >> > Are you

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
Glad to hear it On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 8:43 pm Chris Green, wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:01:36PM +1100, Alan Hopkins wrote: > > Chris > > > > Are you "printing to file" or are you doing something else? As Adrien has > > pointed out, you have not really given us enough info to help you. > >

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:01:36PM +1100, Alan Hopkins wrote: > Chris > > Are you "printing to file" or are you doing something else? As Adrien has > pointed out, you have not really given us enough info to help you. > I tried various ways. > > If you provide all info on the OS system & the

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
As an afterthought Chris, check to see if you have Ghostscript installed - it effectively provides a pdf printer (with editable files) On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 8:01 pm Alan Hopkins, wrote: > Chris > > Are you "printing to file" or are you doing something else? As Adrien has > pointed out, you have

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-06 Thread Alan Hopkins
Chris Are you "printing to file" or are you doing something else? As Adrien has pointed out, you have not really given us enough info to help you. Most Linux systems I am aware of allow printing to file & selecting file type as pdf. I have not encountered a pdf from this method which couldn't be

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 11:54:35PM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Yes, those PDFs are indeed reasonably editable. Even LibreOffice can > pull it off. > Which PDFs? All the ones I have produced are images. What's the 'standard' route from a GnuCash report to PDF (on Linux, so LibreOffice

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 10:09:03AM +1100, Alan Hopkins wrote: > > Additionally, there are pdf editors out there that do a good job (some are > cross-platform) - my pdf's produced from GnuCash are all editable (I use > Linux) - not graphic images - maybe look for another driver/app to achieve >

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, those PDFs are indeed reasonably editable. Even LibreOffice can pull it off. Otherwise, your answer is to either edit the HTML (which is the native format of the reports once rendered) or put them in a spreadsheet which relieves you of the HTML and leaves you with rows and cells that are

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Alan Hopkins
Chris I support Adrien here - he is trying to assist you to get to the end-point you want. HTML reports can be imported into any decent word processing software. You don't need to edit the HTML code. And you can make financial reports look great using a spreadsheet - I've been doing that for

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 02:16:57PM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > You can also select-all and copy/paste into a spreadsheet while viewing > any report. > You are a glutton for punishment!!! Who on earth would try to make a report 'look nice' (which is what I'm trying to do) using a

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 02:16:27PM -0600, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > The standard export/save of reports is an HTML table. > > You can edit that with any decent text editor, and/or open/import it > into a spreadsheet app for further manipulation. > Editing HTML is *NOT* my favourite occupation.

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
You can also select-all and copy/paste into a spreadsheet while viewing any report. Regards, Adrien On 3/5/24 10:43 AM, Chris Green wrote: Is there any way to get a report from GnuCash in some sort of editable format? I have tried various ways, including printing to file as a PDF but I

Re: [GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
The standard export/save of reports is an HTML table. You can edit that with any decent text editor, and/or open/import it into a spreadsheet app for further manipulation. Regards, Adrien On 3/5/24 10:43 AM, Chris Green wrote: Is there any way to get a report from GnuCash in some sort of

[GNC] How to get a report in a format which is easy to edit?

2024-03-05 Thread Chris Green
Is there any way to get a report from GnuCash in some sort of editable format? I have tried various ways, including printing to file as a PDF but I always end up with a PDF file made up of images which is quite useless for editing. I want to be able to change the size and typeface of some of the