Check Printing - Font Size

[David Reiser]

On Feb 17, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Mike wrote:

> When I print checks the font defaults to Courier 24pt.(?)
>
> This question has come up once before but I have not yet seen a  
> solution (if
> there is one).  I searched the archives and found this:
>
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2004-November/ 
> 012022.html
>
> Quote from the above post:
>
>> print-session.c sets the default font to Courier 12. Make sure you  
>> have
>> that installed in your gnome files.
>
> I searched my entire file system and I do not have print-session.c  
> installed.

print-session.c is one of the source files that is compiled into  
gnucash. If you're printing anything, then it was compiled along with  
everything else whenever gnucash was built for your system.

>
> If this will cure the large font problem, exactly where do I install  
> it?

I'm pretty sure you have to track down what your system is doing with  
the various font families. There's a slight chance this is a gnucash  
(only) bug, but I doubt it.

>
> I am using GnuCash 1.8.10 on Mandrake 10.1 Official.  I normally use  
> KDE 3.2.3
> but also have Gnome 2.6  installed.   Running GnuCash in Gnome does not
> affect the font size when printing checks (still prints 24pt) nor can  
> I find
> any place in Gnome to set the font size for printing.  It may be there  
> but I
> am not familiar with Gnome and may just be overlooking it.
>
> All other printing (reports, etc.) is OK, i.e.,  with normal font  
> sizes.  Only
> when printing checks do I run into the large font size with no  
> apparent way
> to change it.

The check printing routine is separate from the report manager, and I  
didn't see any way to easily add font or font size selection to it (I'm  
really lost in C programming, my contribution consisted of cobbling  
scheme code to create a different check format.)

>
> Until I became familiar with GnuCash I used it to handle my personal  
> accounts;
> sending out checks printed in a huge font didn't matter.  But now I am
> setting up my business accounts and want to be able to control the  
> size of
> the font when printing checks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike

Dave

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