Printing

[Jack]

On 3/30/21 9:00 PM, Brendan Coupe wrote:
> The fortune in Thomas' signature made me laugh since he did both.
> Maybe he's not a real programmer:-)

Perhaps he's not a "real programmer" but maybe he is a "really good 
programmer" !

Jack

> Brendan Coupe
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:00 AM Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:
>> Hi Roderick,
>>
>> On Dienstag, 30. März 2021 09:10:59 CEST Roderick Butler wrote:
>>
>>> Good day
>>>
>>> I have browsed the net for a long time and came upon your program which so
>>> far seems the best for what I am doing.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if you please help me, I am currently using KMyMoney V.
>>> 5.0.6 free version (hopefully doesn't expire) and am having a bit of trouble
>>> when it comes to printing, I am using the program solely for cash income and
>>> cash expense, nothing else which works well, but when I print the report it
>>> gets cut off at the bottom and top of each page, (meaning it shows half of
>>> an item on bottom and half of and item at top of next page)
>> KMyMoney is open source and does not expire. There is no paid version either.
>> The developers behind this program are doing this work in their spare time
>> and for fun.
>>
>> With the printing problem you are not alone (see below).
>>
>> 5.0.6 is a rather old version (I guess you're on MS-Windows). Upgrading
>> brings some new features and fixes but not related to printing.
>>
>>> I have looked at
>>> the settings but there is no option for page setup or print preview to see
>>> what is being printed. Could you maybe help me please with this as it's a
>>> bit frustrating.
>> https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=159779#p441475 shows a solution/work-
>> around to the problem.
>>
>> At some point, we have to tackle that, but the (currently) underlying method to
>> render the report does not support page breaks and intensive formatting.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> p.s. The resort looks really nice. We should have a KMyMoney sprint there :)
>> https://community.kde.org/Sprints shows what a developer sprint is but I doubt
>> that we will travel all the way to ZA for it :(
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Thomas Baumgart
>>
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>> Real programmers don’t write workarounds. They tell their users
>> to upgrade their software. -- Shlomi Fish
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