check printing - Kmymoney

Wed Jul 1 14:41:39 BST 2020

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On 6/30/20 2:39 PM, Bob M wrote:
> What version of KMM are you using, 4.12.5
That's not a version of KMM; it might be the version of some KDE 
library.  You probably have 4.8.x.  Please confirm that, as there is 
only a little continued support for version 4 on Windows.  Most 
development in now working on 5.1.x.  You can try a newer version from 
https://download.kde.org/stable/kmymoney/5.0.6/, which is the latest 
stable build for Windows.
> and on what platform/OS/Distribution.  Not sure Windows 7?
"Support for *Windows 7* ended on January 14, 2020. If you are still 
using *Windows 7*, your PC may become more vulnerable to security 
risks." That is a direct quote from Microsoft, and if you are still on 
Windows 7, you might consider upgrading, or even take this as an 
opportunity to switch to Linux, but that's a completely separate discussion.
> The Check printing plugin should be in all versions.  To check, use 
> the Setting/Configure KMyMoney menu item, and click the Plugins icon 
> in the left panel.  There should be an entry for "Check printing" on 
> the right, it should be checked, and clicking the wrench icon to the 
> right should bring up another window showing the
> current template in use, as well as the directory where that template 
> lives.  (I'll come back to that later.) no templates are listed
I'll guess that is a deficiency in how the Windows installer was built.  
However, if you look in C:\Program Files\KMyMoney\share\ (I'm not 
currently close to that VM, so it's from memory) there is a folder with 
"check" in the name - the templates are in that folder.
> To test if it works at all,
> open a checking account in the ledger and select a single transaction.
> The last item on the Transaction menu (either from the menu bar or by
> right clicking on the transaction) should be "Print check."  In my very
> limited testing, the "Print check" entry is only available for payment
> transactions (not deposits) and I've found some cases where it is not
> enabled, but I would expect it to be, so I'll have to investigate
> further on the actual criteria.can't do this until template is found
>
> In order to make it print with all the fields in the correct position
> for your actual checks, you will need to copy the template file to a
> new name, and edit it to suit.  The template is an HTML file, with
> placeholders which KMM substitutes with the actual values of things
> like the Payee and amoubnt.  I know the documentation needs
> improvement on the details, and it is definitely on my list to do, but
> feel free to ask here if you have any specific questions.
>
> I think with the ability to print checks is all this program is 
> missing and you could displace a lot of dissatisfied Quicken users 
> very quickly. I am one of this users so please fix the check printing 
> and I will buy this today
Buy what?  KMM is free (as in "free beer" as well as "free speech".)  In 
general, check printing works fine for single checks, there is just a 
packaging anomaly in (some?) Windows versions, so it doesn't seem to 
know where it put the templates.  Let us (the list) know if you get this 
working or not.  We can revisit the possibility of printing more than 
one check at a time later.
>
> On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, 02:19:09 PM EDT, Jack 
> <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>
> Please keep the discussion on the list, so it can help others with the
> same problem when they search in the future.
>
> What version of KMM are you using, and on what
> platform/OS/Distribution.  The Check printing plugin should be in all
> versions.  To check, use the Setting/Configure KMyMoney menu item, and
> click the Plugins icon in the left panel.  There should be an entry for
> "Check printing" on the right, it should be checked, and clicking the
> wrench icon to the right should bring up another window showing the
> current template in use, as well as the directory where that template
> lives.  (I'll come back to that later.)  To test if it works at all,
> open a checking account in the ledger and select a single transaction.
> The last item on the Transaction menu (either from the menu bar or by
> right clicking on the transaction) should be "Print check." In my very
> limited testing, the "Print check" entry is only available for payment
> transactions (not deposits) and I've found some cases where it is not
> enabled, but I would expect it to be, so I'll have to investigate
> further on the actual criteria.
>
> In order to make it print with all the fields in the correct position
> for your actual checks, you will need to copy the template file to a
> new name, and edit it to suit.  The template is an HTML file, with
> placeholders which KMM substitutes with the actual values of things
> like the Payee and amoubnt.  I know the documentation needs
> improvement on the details, and it is definitely on my list to do, but
> feel free to ask here if you have any specific questions.
>
> Jack
> On 2020.06.30 13:58, Business wrote:
> > I can't find the plugin but I'm able to print reports can you assist
> > with the plug-in I need for checks
> >
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> > On Jun 30, 2020, 1:40 PM, at 1:40 PM, Jack
>
> > <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net 
> <mailto:ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
> > >On 2020.06.30 13:23, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> > >> On Dienstag, 30. Juni 2020 18:14:22 CEST Jack wrote:
> > >> > On 2020.06.30 11:06, Bob M wrote:
> > >>>> I just found this program and I am trying to setup it up to print
> > >>>> wallet checks and I don't see any options to do that. Can someone
> > >>>> help me with this.. or maybe its not possible ?ThanksBob
> > >> >
> > >>> Have you tried the check printing plugin at all?  It's hard to
> > >>> provide useful suggestions if we don't know what you have already
> > >>> tried, and why it didn't work for you. I'm not sure exactly what
> > >>> you mean by wallet checks, but if you want the ability to print
> > >>> multiple checks on a single page, I don't think KMM can currently
> > do
> > >
> > >>> that.  It should, however, be able to print on a single check at a
> > >>> time - possibly requiring you to modify or create a new check
> > >>> template.
> > >>
> > >> Bob is not subscribed to the list, so I forwarded your answer.
> > Here's
> > >
> > >> what he wrote back to me:
> > >>
> > >>> I really like the program but I needed to print more than one
> > check
> > >
> > >>> at a time it's too bad cuz quickens charging too much for their
> > >>> program
> > >
> > >Someone can certainly open a wishlist at bugs.kde.org, but I don't
> > know
> > >
> > >how easy it would be to implement.  I can imagine it is an
> > >inconvenience to print one check at a time, instead of three or four
> > at
> > >
> > >once on a single page,  I wonder if it might be reasonable to to
> > print
> > >
> > >checks individually, each to a file (postscript or pdf) and then
> > create
> > >
> > >a script (using ghostscript or pdftk or some equivalent) to put
> > >multiple files together to a single page.
> > >
> > >Jack
> >
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