Check printing in windows?

[Thomas Troesch]

A little clarity is in order.

The file that dniesby posted is his implementation of a workaround for
windows check printing described in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631611 .  It doesn't really fix
anything.  It provides a check format for a 3-part non-voucher check that
overcomes the check printing bug on windows.  This is only one of several
formats that are distributed with GnuCash.  If you are not on windows, the
format is not usable, and the numbers are NOT what is described in the
documentation.  But it works(around) - almost completely.

The bug lists confirmation of 'small check printing' for XP, Vista, Vista
Home Edition, Windows 7 32 and 64 bit.  If any Windows users DON'T have the
problem, that would be interesting.  It may lead to some insight on the
problem.

Its a very good thing that dniesby is sharing his format here.  But it is
not a solution to the problem.  And I personally can't see a way to include
the format in the distribution that would make any sense.

John - are you saying there are no developers that have a windows
environment to debug with? Or that there are, but they don't see the
problem?

Thomas

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:43 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Mar 17, 2012, at 1:14 PM, David T. wrote:
>
> > The point is that Gnucash will continue to be bundled and distributed
> with the Windows printing flaw until someone submits a bugfix patch that
> can be tested. So Windows users will continue to know about your fixed file
> (buried in the user-list archives), and download and install it before they
> can print checks under Windows.
> >
> >
> > Wouldn't it just be great if the fixed file were a part of the
> application, and Windows users wouldn't have to do all that?
> >
>
> The fundamental problem for the developers is that none of us can
> replicate the problem. It doesn't happen for everyone, so we need to know
> if this patch in fact fixes the problem for more people than just dniesby.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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