Problem printing checks

David Reiser dbreiser at icloud.com
Fri May 20 23:55:22 EDT 2016


> On May 20, 2016, at 11:37 PM, Isaac Wingfield <isw at witzend.com> wrote:
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> On May 20, 2016, at 6:56 PM, David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> What’s “way too low”?
> 
> The third check prints about where a fourth would be, if there were four checks on the page.
> 
>> And is the second check half that much too low?
> 
> No. The second check is properly placed.
> 
>> 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.
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> I did that to get checks 1 and 2 properly positioned. Check 3 is way too low.

That’s way more pathological than anything I’ve seen. Sounds like somehow the page layout has created an additional grid. Any other changes to the .chk file? Still have only one Height line?

> 
> If you edit the quicken_wallet.chk file to "Show_Grid= true", then two grids appear, offset vertically. This seems wrong and, I believe, is related to the check #3 offset problem.
> 
> Isaac

Dave


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