Check printing in windows?

[David T.]

Thomas--
 
Thanks. As neither a check printing person, nor a Windows person, I am flying double blind (which is fine for medical trials, but not so great for software debugging).
 
Now, help me understand: you say it doesn't fix anything. How not? Is it that this modification works with Windows, but fails or breaks the form on other OSes? Is it that there is some underlying unexplained glitch that messes up all such printing in Windows?
 
Is there some way to incorporate the workaround into the general file with a test for Windows that would allow the kludge to be implemented only on that OS?
 
David
 

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From: Thomas Troesch <ttroesch at gmail.com>
To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
Cc: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>; "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: Check printing in windows?


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:
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>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.
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>Regards,
>John Ralls
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