Tom Horsley wrote:
As an exercise in getting familiar with the Qt 4 toolkit, I'm working on a program that seems to be missing from all the linux money programs I can discover (gnucash, kmymoney, etc). None of 'em can print real physical checks worth spit (or even at all for some).
I figure I can just make this a stand alone program that prints checks and generates .qif files at the same time, which I can then import into the money program of my choice.
Does this sound remotely useful? Have I missed some program that does a good job of check printing (quicken does, of course, but the point is to get away from windows).
Is it worth aiming to make this thing release quality, or should I just stick with the learning exercise? :-).
If you decide to do it, you may want to generate a postscript file that is the template for the check, and your program sets the values of the variables in the template. I did something like that in a script for printing envelopes.
http://www.infinity-ltd.com/mikkel/programs.html
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