printing checks

[Robert Graham Merkel]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:17:32 greg@gregandeva.net wrote:
> I hope this isn't a really stupid question, but I'm brand new to
> GnuCash. I'll spare everybody the details that you've probably heard
> before about my struggles to get 1.6.1 installed on a Red Hat 7.1 system
> (I never did find an RPM that would install, I had to compile from
> source and even that was painful). But now I've got it working, and so
> far, it is very impressive. I am converting to GnuCash from Quicken on
> Windoze (like many, I'm trying to remove the last non-game reason I have
> for keeping Windoze). 
> 
> 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
> 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
> 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,
> Windoze). I have looked through the documentation several times, and not
> found anything about this (the documentation on how to create a custom
> format also leaves a lot to be desired in any case). 
> 

a) I don't think we save these yet.
b) We can probably add these positions and make another standard check
format.
   which would solve your specific problem. 
c) We really should add code so people can save their own check formats.

> 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?

These both sound like good ideas, which we'll get to at some stage.

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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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