GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 86636
RFE: Check Printing needs improvments
Last modified: 2018-06-29 20:13:24 UTC
The default quicken-style check printing is remarkably lame. There should be a option to make the output be much closer to what quicken outputs. I have postscript code to do as such, but I have no idea if/how it would be integrated. The output should print on the top check, middle check, and bottom check not just the top one. It also doesn't print memo or anything else by default.
Yes, this is a problem. IMHO check printing should add a couple more features: 1) we should provide a way for users to define their own "named check-type" configurations and save them. 2) the "last" setting should be saved and re-used.
I agree the output is lame, but it DOES print top middle and bottom checks in a 3 check page. We should probably also at some stage add the option of printing 3 checks at a time to a full sheet. Marking this RFE as it does work.
FYI, I did add support for "Deluxe" personal checks.
I have 3 per sheet checks and would like to print them in one pass as required by the mfg. (each pass thru the fuser removes water content and increases risk of failure).
I really like gnucash, but the feature for printing checks is unusable. The quicken format prints too low on my printer. The custom feature is a pain to set up but I could live with that if it didn't delete the settings whenever closing the checking account window. That in my view is a BUG. The suggestion to allow several formats and SAVING them is a nice one, but just saving the current custom setting would help a lot. Not being able to print more than one check at a time is also a real pain. Someway of marking all checks to be printed and printing them all at once would be awfully nice. One would need to indicate for the first check whether it is the first, second, or third on a page. I am using GnuCash 1.8.12 under Gentoo, and will continue using it, if hand printing checks doesn't become to much of a hassle. Thanks for all the work done so far.
Changing all RFE's to unspecified version
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 opened a new enhancement request for printing multiple checks at once.
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