GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 311062
RFE:custom cheque printing interface enhancements
Last modified: 2018-06-29 20:53:01 UTC
Version details: 1.8.9-4ubuntu2 Distribution/Version: ubuntu hoary The "print cheque" dialog box that you use to print checks from your register needs some improvements to help use a custom format. If you chose the "custom format" tab and enter in the x and y coordinates for all of the fields, these dimensions will be ignored unless you chose "custom" from the "cheque format" dropdown on the "options" tab. This is counter-intuitive. the "custom" option should get chosen when the user starts entering coordinates in the "custom format" tab. I believe this is also the case for the date and position custom positions. There is no way to save your x and y dimensions as a user-defined custom format. This means that you have to enter them in each time you want to print a check. I saw this mentioned here: http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2001-July/004332.html but I didn't see a bug report or any evidence that this had been addressed. In the "custom format" tab, the "Date format" box defaults to "0.000" and there are a couple of arrows next to it to increment that by .1. That doesn't really seem to fit the data type that should go in that box. It's probably unnecessary to default all of these fields to "0.000". It makes it look unnecessarily confusing. Most people probably don't specify thousandth of inches (let alone thousandth of points) on their check formats. It would be nice to be able to see what these dimensions are for the pre-defined formats (quicken and deluxe) that are already there so that the user can work from those defaults. There is no configuration option to rotate the check printing (such as between quicken and deluxe). Thanks a lot for your help on this product. It's awesome! -Andy
Here's another report about this, though there's not much better information. see also: http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2002-June/004021.html I also tried putting my own definition into scm/printing/print-check.scm and glade/print.glade but without much success. Maybe this is an area were user documentation could help. Thanks!
Oh crud. I found bug #86636 which is remarkably similar to this one. Sorry, I really did look earlier. They're not duplicates, really, though.
The upcoming 2.0 release has been fixed so that all of the print dialog settings are remembered from one invocation to the next. I have also added the ability to translate the position of the output on the paper, and the ability to rotate the output.
Thanks! You guys truly are doing the lord's work! -Andy
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