Problem printing checks

[David Reiser]

What’s “way too low”? And is the second check half that much too low?

You might want to measure your check heights too. I just discovered that my 3-to-a-page wallet checks are not all the same height. They are 202, 206, and 203 points high. I print about 5 checks per year, so I hadn’t played with multiple checks per page since they added it to gnucash a while back.

If you find the quicken_wallet.chk file, open it with a text editor, modify the Height = 204.0 line, you’ll change the ‘gap’ between first, second, and third checks. I found that setting Height = 200.0 gives me much better results on the third check than the default 204.0.

In case you’re interested, wallet checks are ‘supposed’ to be 2 and 5/6 inches tall — based on the days when typewriters were in use and had a fixed 6 lines per inch vertical spacing. 2 and 5/6 inches x 72 points/inch = 204.0 points high. The fact that 200.0 works so much better suggests to me that there are one or more rounding errors in the page layout code for multiple forms/page cases.
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Dave Reiser
dbreiser at icloud.com





> On May 20, 2016, at 8:27 PM, Isaac Wingfield <isw at witzend.com> wrote:
> 
> I've just started using GnuCash, and noticed that there's a problem printing three-up checks using the form for "Quicken (™) Wallet Checks w/ side stub" -- the third check prints way too low on the page. Lots of fiddling around produced no solution, and searching the archive came up empty.
> 
> I've filed a bug report (#766200) and come up with an awkward work-around that involves two passes though the printer, but meanwhile, does anyone have a better solution?
> 
> thx
> 
> Isaac