Thanks for all the feedback. I've never used LaTex before but it seems like it could be a good solution. The problem will be trying to figure out how to format the check correctly. My checks are printed on 'VersaCheck Form 1000' which is a 3 section perforated page where the check is on top, transaction details in the middle, and addresses on the bottom to use with windowed envelopes (see image below). I like using these checks because they do not have your account numbers pre-printed on the bottom. I have multiple businesses and each business has multiple bank accounts. I hate having multiple checkbooks and checkstock floating around my office so the VersaCheck 1000's are nice for simplicity because I can just print the account I want on there at the time of printing.
<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jqcBml_BBek/Wycw2ZohzkI/AAAAAAAAVeM/jUnK2f6es68pKCxkejlN3_ytvqQn5x1YACLcBGAs/s1600/71dMYEiJGsL._AC_UL320_SR248%252C320_.jpg> Any input on where to start when it comes to formatting these checks with Latex would be appreciated. I think a good workflow would look something like this... 1. Enter transactions as 'Liabilities:ST Accounts Payable' in Ledger 2. pull report to get all transactions from this account 3. Use the packages recommended by Jostein to convert output into LaTex 4. Python or bash script to convert to pdf and change all accounts from 'Liabilities:ST Accounts Payable' to the checking account where the check was written from (i.e. Assets:Business Checking) I suppose in theory steps 2-4 could all be scripted and then invoke the script with a hotkey but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. - Matt Sewell On Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 1:55:40 PM UTC-7, Matthew Sewell wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone has ever used ledger for check printing. I used to > use my banks bill pay but then they sent a large American Express payment > to the wrong account and I never got the money back. It was an $1,800 > payment so I've vowed to never use it again and since then, I've been hand > writing all my business checks after I enter the transaction into ledger. > > Has anyone ever printed checks from entries in ledger? It doesn't seem > like it would be too difficult to make a checks report that could be > exported in pdf and then printed. This would save me hours of time. Just > wondering if anyone has thought of this or done this before? > > I found this program written in php that does a good job of generating the > checks but of course, it doesn't talk to Ledger: > https://github.com/aaronpk/checks > > I'm willing to develop this if needed but thought I'd see if there's any > other ideas out there. > > Thanks, > > Matt Sewell > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
