Checks print with black bar in place of Payee name

[Derek Atkins]

No, GnuCash check printing does not support blank stock.  It
expects that you've got pre-printed check stock and all it
needs to fill in are the things you would write by hand.
That hasn't changed, and nobody is working on that.

-derek

Quoting Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com>:

> You may have to do a custom layout of how you want the check to 
> print. I too am new to Gnucash from Quickbooks. I tried the check 
> printing in GC and didn't find it to be satisfactory. Part of the 
> problem is that I buy blank stock and as far as I have found GC won't 
> print the details of the account like my name and address, the bank's 
> name and address, or the routing number and account number. I was 
> able to do this in QB. Like I say, I am new to GC. I have just 
> touched the surface and have much to learn. None of the linux distros 
> that I use have the latest version of GC. Not sure how many more 
> features might be added since 2.2.5.
>
> Harold
>
> --- On Thu, 11/20/08, qajaq <wabm at william-maloney.org> wrote:
> From: qajaq <wabm at william-maloney.org>
> Subject: Checks print with black bar in place of Payee name
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 1:06 PM
>
> I'm new to GNUcash, trying to get to understand it well enough to replace
> QuickBooks as I migrate to a Linux OS. I understand that I can't get the
> sophisticated check-printing routines that are so convenient in QB, but I
> would at least like to be able to print the checks, even if I have to track
> the numbers manually.
>
> According to the Help files, I'm supposed to click on a transaction that I
> want printed to check, then go to File > Print Check, and the data will be
> sent to the printer in (at least approximately) the right layout. The
> problem I'm running into is that I'm getting a thick, black line in the
> Payee section of the check. The date and both the numeric and spelled-out
> versions of the amount print correctly, but not the transaction's
> Description line (which the Help file says is supposed to be what fills in
> the Payee section of the check).
>
> I'm running GNUcash 2.2.7 on WinXP/SP3. Any ideas why this behavior is
> appearing, or what I might do to correct it?
>
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