Re: [SL] Cheque template help requested.

[Jeff R. <je...@jr...>]

Hi Jim

> figure out how far *up* the page you want the bottom of your cheque,
> and put a \vfill between the top of the cheque, and the bottom of the
> summary, and then at the bottom put the \vspace that you want from the
> bottom of your cheque. 
that may work, I'll give it a try tonight.

Thanks
Jeff


Jigme Datse wrote:
>> I think it
>> may have to do with boxes?
>>     
>
> I think it's due to using a fixed /vspace instead of flexible vglue.
> I think what you want to do (and this may take some playing around) is
> figure out how far *up* the page you want the bottom of your cheque,
> and put a \vfill between the top of the cheque, and the bottom of the
> summary, and then at the bottom put the \vspace that you want from the
> bottom of your cheque.  Now I'm not sure that this gives the answer
> that you are looking for.  It would depend on how you want to lay this
> all out.  The way that you have it laid out you have the invoice
> information at the top, then the cheque below that, and it appears
> that it is just a little bit below  it.  So what you want to do if you
> want to maintain the same format is to make sure that {tabularx} is
> the same size, and I'm not familiar enough with LaTeX to know if that
> is a text box, or if it's just a lexical boundary.  If it is a textbox
> then you should be able to define the hsize and vsize of the box.  If
> it's simply lexical (has no direct effect on how things are laid out
> on the page), then you will have to find a way to put the cheque on
> the page where you want (and that's crutial).  I would suggest trying
> to place the cheque either on the top of the printed page of
> "letterpaper".  That may be easily said, but much more difficult to
> produce with the cheque paper that you are using.
>
> Jigme Datse
>
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