On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:22 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> The term is Print 'dialog'. I attached a screenshot illustrating the > location of the export function. > > Across the top is the app menu, containing sub-menus. Print is not one > of them. (Print is however a function in the File menu, which brings up > the Print dialog.) > > This terminology is clearly used and the menus fully described, along > with where each function is in each menu in the Manual. > In my most recent response in this subthread, I did not claim my terminology was correct; I simply asked what you would call it. > That aside, yes, I figured you were referring to the Print Dialog > (rather than a menu) and no, the option to Export is not there. Why > would you expect it to be? That dialog is for *printing*. (and for a > report, not the book, at that.) > I was printing a report,. You *can* 'print to file' on any report, but that is just storing the > report in its same form, outside of GnuCash. Yes, of course. I don't find the formatting of this particular report to be user-friendly and I was suggesting alternatives that I thought might be more friendly to other users as well, and I gave an example of what another program does, which I think GC would benefit by making possible. > Exporting creates a CSV directly, which can either then be processed by > scripts or other apps, or opened in a Spreadsheet app. > Thanks. I did know that. I will live with what GC currently prints out, though I do think it is sub-optimal. -P. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
