About:
FreeCheck is a free check-printing utility, currently only for US and possibly Canadian checks. You can use it to print your own checks on blank check stock, available from office supply stores and various places around the web. It generates a PostScript file which can be saved to disk, printed, or converted to PDF using GhostScript.

Author:
Eric Sandeen [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://www.sandeen.net/freecheck/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.sandeen.net/freecheck/download/
Changelog:
http://www.sandeen.net/freecheck/download/latest/ChangeLog

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Office/Business :: Financial

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.30	18-Oct-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Re: Integrating into GNUCash
by Eric Sandeen - Aug 3rd 2000 15:26:14

I have been in touch with the GnuCash people... they seem mildly interested. I need to get the fill-out portion of FreeCheck done (amount, payee, etc) and then perhaps they can use it. They're currently using Gnome-Print to fill out pre-printed checks, I believe.

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[»] Integrating into GNUCash?
by Dave Platt - Aug 3rd 2000 15:03:07

It's be really, really neat to have the freecheck/GNUMicr stuff integrated into the check-printing feature in GNUCash. This would allow a check to be printed in a single pass through the printer, complete with the necessary MICR encoding of the amount of the check.

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[»] North American Checks
by Eric Sandeen - Aug 3rd 2000 09:55:10

Sorry, that's true, it's only for American (and Canadian) checks. If you'd like to extend it to print checks for your country, I'll accept patches. :-)

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[»] Re: Checks?
by Steve Killen - Aug 3rd 2000 03:09:35

and that the rest of the western world has moved to better payments options ages ago.

Paper has not quite become obsolete...credit cards only work because there's a big database that says that transactions took place. Either way, it looks like a cool way to design your own checks; I still write them. :P

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Defending innocent grammar from harm since 1979.

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[»] Checks?
by Gustav - Aug 3rd 2000 03:03:55

This forgets to mention that this is for american checks, and that the rest of the western world has moved to better payments options ages ago. My parents used to have a checkbook when I was a kid, myself I haven't seen one in 15 years.

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[»] Re: Checks?
by naught from naught - Apr 24th 2001 17:37:39


> My parents
> used to have a checkbook when I was a
> kid, myself I haven't seen one in 15
> years. If you havn't used checks in 15 years, why do you care if this is only for american checks?
In Japan I paid all my bills at the convenience store, in the US I use checks. If I were in Europe I guess I would use whatever system was in place there. I do know that I wouldn't try to insult someone for using a different system, basically because no one cares.



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