Quicken wallet checks user hack

[Derek Atkins]

Adding a new check format requires modification in three places:

the glade file, the c file, and the scheme file.

The glade and c files are necessary to add a new check format menu item,
and the scheme file is necessary to deal with the printing.

If your work is not generic (or if it breaks the other formats), then
no, I don't want it back. ;)

If you worked with a CVS tree, you could create a patch by just running:

      cvs diff -u > /tmp/mydiff

If you worked from a tarball then you'll need to extract a second
tree and run:

     diff -r -u /path/to/origtree /path/to/changedtree > /tmp/mydiff

You should be able to set font info in one place, but I have no clue
how that part of gnome-print works.  :(

-derek

David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> writes:

> I have created a modified print-check.scm which will print appropriate
> info in both the main check area and the stubs of the Quicken wallet
> check form. The payee and memo fields on the stub are truncated to 21
> characters if necessary to prevent running onto the check itself.
>
> This is a user hack -- the developers will no doubt cringe if they
> look at it. Because the check height for wallet checks is only 204
> points instead of 264, and the check height is defined outside loop
> for deluxe/quicken/custom forms, my file is probably only good for
> quicken wallet checks even though I left the other choices in place.
>
> I discovered recently by looking at the examples in the Quicken store
> that the default check printing 'style' is to include the payee both
> in the classical first line/payee location and as the first line of
> the name and address block below the word amount line. My file is set
> up to print the payee on the line above the amount-in-words
> line. (I've printed over 1800 of this style check in the last 11 years
> using custom database routines with the payee only ever appearing in
> the address block area. I've never gotten one back. But then, I've
> discovered that you can just about make all your checks payable to
> 'Big Bird' and the bank will pay whoever presents the check.)
>
> If I can make sense of gnome, I may try to pick a better font for
> these checks. After all, we're passing postscript coordinates with the
> scheme functions, we ought to be able to pass a font declaration,
> too. OTOH, it might look like MS HTML -- with a font call at every
> print value command.
>
> If the powers that be are interested, I can try to post a file
> comparison output (but I hardly think this qualifies as a patch
> quality mod). Otherwise, I'll email the file to those interested. I'm
> really over my head in this CVS world, so the patch route might
> require more hand holding than folks can stand.
>
> Dave
>
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
>
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