printing checks/searchable archive

David Hampton hampton@employees.org
24 Jun 2002 23:30:04 -0700


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Greg,

Please file a bug on bugzilla.gnome.org to make sure that the issue of
check printing stays visible.  The severity should be set to
"enhancement", and please start the summary line with "RFE:".  Thanks.

David

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 18:10, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 17:44, Peter T. Abplanalp wrote:
>=20
> > 1) what have peoples' experiences been with printing checks?=20
>=20
> In Gnucash, it is a real pain. I have to enter a custom format every
> single &*#*@! time, the same 10 numbers entered over and over and over
> and over and over and... well, you get the idea. It does not have the
> capability to save a custom format. It does not have the ability to
> print a page of checks at a time. What I have are Quicken wallet-style
> checks, but the Quicken format that comes with Gnucash does not work
> with these. The area of printing checks is the one thing that makes me
> think about still using Quicken. Aside from the check printing issues, I
> like Gnucash very much and I use it for all my personal accounts, so I
> don't want to sound like I'm bashing it. Better check printing is at the
> top of my list for what I'd like to see.
>=20
> When I asked on this list about this about a year ago, I was told that
> to provide the capability just to be able to save a custom format would
> require modifications in three different places, mostly Scheme code.
> Unfortunately that's not a language that I know, or I might have taken a
> crack at doing it myself. From what I'm reading now, it sounds like
> budgeting is a much higher priority, so I don't expect to see any
> improvements in the check printing in Gnucash any time soon.
>=20
> --Greg


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