I don't know how GnuCash is loading the GtkWebKitWebView, but I wonder if this stack overflow thread might be helpful?
https://stackoverflow.com/q/71734719/328275 On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM Elliot Huntington < elliot.hunting...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay. Thank you for referencing the bug ticket. That's helpful. I don't > have Gnome Web installed, and I'm not using the Gnome desktop environment. > Sorry I didn't try that specific browser. I really appreciate you John. The > work around you provided is really useful. Thank you. > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > >> Maybe because Chrome isn’t WebKit. That’s why I asked you to try Gnome >> Web, which is WebKit. >> >> You’re not the only one with this problem, see >> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799461 >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> On Mar 24, 2025, at 20:12, Elliot Huntington <elliot.hunting...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Thank you for your response John. I am assuming that when you say to >> "save the report to HTML and open it with a normal browser" you mean to >> "Export" and choose the HTML format. So that's what I just tried to do and >> yes. That worked. I exported the Income/Expense Barchart to HTML. Then I >> opened the html document in Chrome, and the chart data rendered just fine. >> Then I opted to print that page inside google chrome and save to PDF. The >> outcome was to have a successfully generated PDF document with the proper >> chart data inside it. >> >> Any ideas why it is necessary to perform this intermediate step to save >> as HTML and then use Chrome to generate the PDF instead of just having the >> PDF generation work directly from within GnuCash? >> >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> >>> The graphs are implemented with JavaScript, meaning that the browser (in >>> the case of GnuCash’s report tabs, a GtkWebkitWebView. >>> >>> If you save the report to HTML and open it with a normal browser does it >>> print to PDF correctly? What if it’s Gnome Web, aka Eclipse? >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >>> >>> >>> > On Mar 24, 2025, at 19:36, Elliot Huntington < >>> elliot.hunting...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > I'm running Arch Linux with GnuCash. >>> > >>> > Version: 5.10 >>> > Build ID: 5.10-unknown-commit(2025-02-08) >>> > >>> > When I go to: "Reports -> Income & Expense -> Income & Expense Bar >>> Chart" >>> > I'm successfully able to see the report data just fine. However, when I >>> > select the option to "Make Pdf" and proceed to save the report to a >>> > PDF document on my computer, the report does not export properly to a >>> > PDF document. It does generate a PDF document. But if I leave the >>> printer >>> > settings at the default (meaning portrait mode) then the top half of >>> the >>> > generated PDF document appears solid black and the bottom half of the >>> > document appears solid white. The same happens if I just print the >>> report. >>> > Besides the page margins, the top half of the page is black and the >>> bottom >>> > half is white. If I change the print settings to be in landscape mode, >>> both >>> > the exported PDF document (and the page printed from my printer) both >>> > appear solid white. Nothing prints in the report at all. >>> > >>> > Now, If I generate other reports and export those to PDF, they work >>> fine. >>> > For example I am able to successfully export the Income Statement, >>> Equity >>> > Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow reports to PDF documents. They >>> > export just fine, and the print just fine. >>> > >>> > Maybe this has something to do with reports that print charts. I don't >>> > understand why the Income & Expense Bar Chart report will render fine >>> in >>> > the application, but exporting it to a PDF document is broken. >>> > >>> > Any ideas? >>> > >>> > Thank you, >>> > Elliot >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > 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. >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ 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.
