No probs Victor ... good to get some additional advice at any time.... -----Original Message----- From: R. Victor Klassen <rvklas...@gmail.com> Sent: 28 September 2018 18:28 To: davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] Report ROWS (being badly broken at the bottom of a page)
Ah. Hijacked thread. I failed to note the date on the earlier posts Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 28, 2018, at 11:47 AM, <davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz> > <davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz> wrote: > > Thank you Victor ... this was an older query and I did manage that > workaround. ... these odd little quirks cause so much when we expect all to > be just right!!! > > I have found that just selecting all on a report and pasting onto an Excel > sheet does give so much more formatting options, and once a year for that is > OK. > > Kind regards > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: R. Victor Klassen <rvklas...@gmail.com> > Sent: 27 September 2018 23:32 > To: davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] Report ROWS (being badly broken at the bottom of a > page) > > This is a problem common to many reports, including invoices, which is > the use case for which I learned the work-around. Copying to a > spreadsheet really isn’t a great solution after you’ve figured out how > to get an invoice formatted the way you want and then after a couple > of years generate an invoice with too many lines and it breaks in the > middle of a line badly… > > That said, the customer for which we had the long invoices is no longer a > customer of ours, so I haven’t needed the workaround in years, but I’m > reasonably certain it still works. > > The workaround I used was to save the report as HTML and then open it in a > browser that respects the tag that tells it not to let that happen. Yes > there is such a tag and it is used in the reports, but it is optional (!) for > browsers to respect that tag when generating a print version of the page. If > I recall correctly, Safari is based on the same code as used in GnuCash, and > does not respect it, but FireFox does respect it. I didn’t try Explorer or > Chrome, since I had found a solution. > > From the right browser you can send it to the printer or to a PDF writer and > get the correct result. > >> On May 23, 2018, at 11:04 AM, davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz wrote: >> >> I note that when printing a report to a PDF file, the page set up is >> a bit hit and mis when multiple pages. Some lines of entries span >> into the footer on one page and header of the next giving a split table. >> Is there any method of having a complete row on one page and the >> start of a complete row on the next page. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> 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. > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.