Re: Gnumeric and RedHat 8.0

[Carla Schroder <carla bratgrrl com>]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:12:08AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Just curious for anyone who's using gnumeric in Redhat 8.0. I tried to 
install 
>> RH 8.0, and gnumeric that ship with it has a problem that it displays 
>> monospacing font, even for font like Helvetica (which is the default), and 
>> the spacing between characters are large. So eg., instead of displaying 
>> "abcdefg"
>> it will display something like
>> "a  b  c  d  e  f  g"
>> 
>> Using Courier makes the problem worst. The same problem happens with 
AbiWord 
>>by the way. Anyone else experience this? This seems like RH problem rather 
>> than gnumeric, but I am just curious.

>My first suspicion would be freetype.  We've had several reports of
>crashing from RH8 systems when people print.  The version of
>freetype shipping with rh8 (2.1.2) is known to be borked.  RH tried
>to patch it, but appears to have missed a few things.  My suggestion
>would be to look for an update to freetype, or downgrade to 2.1.1

I'm having the same problem, and with Abiword too. Here are screenshots:

http://www.bratgrrl.com/abiword.png
http://www.bratgrrl.com/gnumeric.png

I've been talking to a person at Red Hat, and not learning much. Open Office 
is their preferred office suite, they consider Abiword and Gnumeric to be 
nice 'extras'. All I know is I do NOT want to have to run multiple Linuxes 
just to get the applications I want. There's enough of that in the Winderz 
world.

Before I risk trashing my system by messing with freetype, I wonder if there 
isn't some way to really pin this down? I have no problems at all with 
printing.
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