Quicken wallet checks user hack

[David Reiser]

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