Quicken wallet checks user hack

[David Reiser]

On Jun 17, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> *insert standard disclaimer about how the check printing needs to be
> re-written*
>
But if it had already been rewritten, I wouldn't be learning all this 
stuff about making software work...

> The glade file, print.glade, just needs an extra label in the menu.
> The c file just needs (again) an extra label in the string-array, to
> map from the menu label to the scheme label.
>
Oh my, that looks easy...

> And then, of course, you need your generic scheme.
>
Not as easy, but as long as gnc:*stock-check-positions* doesn't give me 
too much heartburn, I think I can manage.

>
> The PS is generated each time through.  So long as you only make the
> font-code run for your particular check-format it wont interfere with
> anyone else.  You can test this by printing to a file and running
> ghostscript (gs) on the output file to see.  Works much better than
> wasting paper (or checks).

OK. If I don't stumble too badly on the generic scheme without font 
changes, I'll give this a try. OTOH, there's a fair amount of danger in 
hard-coding a font choice, and I'm clearly not up to the task of adding 
a font picker.

> -derek
>
Dave

David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net