Bill Gribble writes:
> Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm going to revisit the report-generation issue, as our current
> > reporting infrastructure, while far better than before, still doesn't
> > support all the features that we might like to have - particularly
> > high-quality printed output and export to formats like plain text or
> > gnumeric.
>
> The printed output problem is solved. I have waiting "in the wings" a
> version of our htmlWindow object that uses gtk-html underneath, which
> supports gnome-print directly and makes very nice printed output from
> html. Expect to see it in the CVS tree as soon as the 1.5 development
> series starts in a couple of weeks.
>
That's the key question. Is the printed output from our existing
reports going to be adequate? If so, put it on the "will revisit some
time in the medium-to-long-term future" list.
> I don't doubt that the reporting infrastructure can be improved, but
> let me suggest that you stay with HTML as the output format for the
> time being. Those text layout problems are a pain in the butt, and
> it's best to let somebody else solve them (i.e. gtkhtml).
>
Agreed.
> It may also make sense to have translators to other output formats
> besides HTML, but the reports that exist now would make easy fodder
> for even the most basic HTML->whatever converter.
Agreed, for all formats except gnumeric. However, it might be simpler
to just write special "reports" for gnucash export, and if need be
factor out the data-gathering code so that both the gnumeric-format
and HTML-format code.
This may sound like a rather dumb question, but is there a good
HTML->text converter out there that we can integrate with gnucash?
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