printing checks

[David G Hamblen]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 greg@gregandeva.net wrote:

...
> My question is about printing checks. The check forms I have are
> "Quicken compatible" (of course), and Quicken calls them "wallet"
> checks. They are three to a page, with some white space at the bottom,
> and a stub in the left margin (Quicken normally fills in the stub,
> GnuCash of course does not, but that's OK because I never use the stubs
> anyway). I used the following numbers in the custom format to print

Stubs are a necessity.  I use the same checks at home, and faithfully save
the stubs, but never use them.  However, at work, business checks have one
or more stubs for listing the transactions for which this check is in
payment.  We send one check for up to 10 transactions (office supplies are
typical).  For this you really need the stub.  Our checks have two stubs,
one for the vendor, and one for our records (we staple all the invoices
together with the stub).


> these, and it works quite nicely:
> 
> 8.2    5.3
> 19.0   5.3
> 7.5    4.2
> 18.5   4.8
> 8.0    1.8
> 20.7
> 0.0
> Centimeters
> 
> The problem is, I have to enter all these &$(@#( numbers for every
> individual check. Is there some way I can get GnuCash to save my custom


This really ought to be a loadable module (scheme?), so we don't have to
recompile from source to add a different form.


> format so I don't have to manually enter it each and every time? If I
> don't find a solution to this, I'll be forced back to Quicken (and
> worse,

> On a less important note, Quicken also has two features related to check
> printing that I haven't found in GnuCash yet. The first is the ability
> to print multiple checks per page in a single run. I haven't found any
> way to do this in GnuCash other than to run the sheet through the
> printer three times (and re-enter all the **$(@(! numbers three times).
> There has to be a better way. Also, Quicken allows transactions to be
> marked for later printing, then a single menu item prints all the marked
> checks. Is there any way to mark transactions for later printing, or
> print multiple checks in a single run without going through the dialog
> box for each and every transaction to print?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Greg
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			Dave

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