Report print to PDF exports a raw image instead of selectable text

Mon Feb 5 02:07:48 GMT 2024

  Hello Jack,

OK I got it working.  Not sure why but if I dont explicitely add  
".html" to the filename when exporting from KMM, it exports the data  
as a plain text that browsers can't parse properly....

Strrangely I tried to simply open the "defective" file in Libreoffice  
Writer and it seems to be able to properly parse the code and display  
the data properly...

If I manually add the html extension I can open the file from my web  
browser without any issue.....  Maybe I used linux for too long and  
got used to how file extensions are mostly irrelevant...

Thanks

Quoting Jack via KMyMoney <kmymoney at kde.org>:

> On 2/4/24 15:34, Louis-Philippe Allard via KMyMoney wrote:
>
>>  

  Quoting Jochen via KMyMoney <kmymoney at kde.org>:

> Hi,
>
> Am 01.02.24 um 04:54 schrieb Louis-Philippe Allard via KMyMoney:
>
>> as described in email subject, Kmymoney 5.1-606 (AppImage) exports
>> report in PDF format with an image of the page instead of selectable text.
>>
>> As anything changed in the way it exports to PDF? To produce the PDF I
>> always simply opened up the report, did "CTRL+P" and the OS print dialog
>> box pops up and I selected the "Print to File (PDF)" and set the options
>> as I wanted.
>>
>> The PDF's I exported in the past were always standard PDF's with
>> selectable text. Now its exporting what seems to be a screenshot of the
>> contents of the report, and a blurry one at that...
>>
>> Sorry if this issue was covered before or if a new setting has been
>> added to KMM which causes this issue?
>
> you can try to export it into a HTML file, open it in your web browser
> and print it from there as PDF.
>
> More work but it works. ;-)
>
> --
>
> Viele Grüße,Jochen

Hello,

I just tried to export the report as HTML and while its exporting, its  
not being parsed as HTML code in my browser.  I tried with several  
browsers to no avail.
Are you saving as a file with a .html extension and then opening it  
with the browser>  The text below looks OK to me.

> This is what I get when opening the HTML file with my browser:

It looks like the browser is opening the file as plain text instead of html.

>  
>   <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 //EN"  
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"[1]>
>   <html>
>   <head>
>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
>   <title>C1-1: General Insurance Registry (incomp. w/o WP reports)</title>
>   <style type="text/css">
>   <!--
>
> Any trick to make this work?  By the way printing the report to PDF  
> produces a file that exceeds 10Mb (42 pages of transactions)....
>   Louis-Philippe Allard
> lp.allard.1 at gmail.com
> Sent using Horde Groupware on GNU/Linux

Links:
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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd
  Louis-Philippe Allard
lp.allard.1 at gmail.com
Sent using Horde Groupware on GNU/Linux
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