Cheque printing.

[David Reiser]

On May 30, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Wouter van Marle wrote:

> Thanks for the pointer; I'm going to try this when I'm back in office
> this Thursday.
>
> In a related matter: my cheques have two lines for the amount in  
> words.
> Is it possible to wrap around to the second line? Often amounts are so
> complex (my trial cheque was $7998.10) that it doesn't fit on one  
> line.

I don't know the answer to that one. And changing fonts to a smaller  
size is a non-trivial exercise.

>
>
> Wouter.
>
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 09:26 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
>> Until you switch to 1.9.x or 2.0, to save a custom format, you have
>> to edit the check definition file. See
>>
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2004-March/ 
>> 009733.html
>>
>> Saving custom formats does work in the 1.9 series.
>>
>> Searching the gnucash mailing lists works best (IMO) at: https://
>> lists.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On May 30, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Wouter van Marle wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 12:32 +0100, Maf. King wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 30 May 2006 08:14, Wouter van Marle wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Wouter,
>>>>
>>>> I'm certain that this has cropped up on the list before, and a
>>>> workaround
>>>> proposed.  have a look in the list archives, I'm sure you will find
>>>> something!
>>>
>>> I have done a Google search on this already, and the only  
>>> reference on
>>> cheque printing it returned was from 2004. Now I didn't search
>>> specifically for the gnucash archives, the only other references I
>>> found
>>> were product descriptions telling it is possible.
>>>
>>> Wouter.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Maf.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I've a serious issue with cheque printing: of course I have to  
>>>>> use a
>>>>> custom cheque format, and the problem is that this is only
>>>>> remembered as
>>>>> long as I keep the specific account window open. As soon as I  
>>>>> close
>>>>> this, all the settings are forgotten! That is not just
>>>>> irritating, it's
>>>>> a total show stopper for me regarding this function (that could
>>>>> be so
>>>>> useful...just put a cheque in the printer and be done with it, no
>>>>> problems with accidental misspellings and so anymore).
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a known bug (I haven't searched bugzilla yet)? Is there  
>>>>> any
>>>>> workaround?
>>>>>
>>>>> Using GnuCash 1.8.11 (Mandriva LE2005).
>>>>>
>>>>> Wouter.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>> --
>> David Reiser
>> dbreiser at earthlink.net
>>
>>
>

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