New specification for Canadian cheques

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Gilles Gariepy <gariepy.g at videotron.ca>:

>
>
> Effective June 30th, 2007, all Canadian cheques must conform to new,
> standardised specifications as outlined at
> http://www.cdnpay.ca/news/new_cheque_specs.asp . Most of the changes can be
> accommodated with the custom setting in gnucash. However, there is one
> specification that I have not figured out how to comply with.
>
> It states that ³Field indicators must be printed below the date on all
> cheques in 6-8pt font in one of three
> available formats: YYYYMMDD, DDMMYYYY or MMDDYYYY.²
>
> Does anyone have any ideas if this can be achieved ³locally² or does this
> require changes to gnucash?

Looking at the sample, it looks like all we really have to do is have a
new date format that fits your output requirements.  The "field indicators"
should already be on the raw cheque stock so we shouldn't have to print
those ourselves.

HOWEVER I do think it would require a change to the code to actually print
the date format as you need with the proper spacing.

> Thanks
> Gilles

-derek

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