Hi Chris On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 06:06, Chris Dunn < wrote: > Attached are 2 small sheets which should demonstrate the problem. > > The file bill2.gnumeric is the result of opening an OpenOffice .sxc file > in AbiWord. The raw data is there, but a lot of the formatting is lost, > and various cells are relocated from their original positions. Running a > print preview on this (unedited) file shows truncated text at, for > instance cells B1, B5, A12, A14, C31, and others. When you said Abiword, I suspect you meant Gnumeric ? It would be nice to see the openoffice file to understand why the import did not work properly. It should have. > > The file bill.gnumeric had the original OpenOffice formatting reinstated > in the new Gnumeric sheet (bill2), and the file was then saved under the > new name. All columns were widened after your advice yesterday, and this > resolved the date printing issue, but does not seem to have assisted > with the text truncation. Although it should be noted that the text > truncated is now in different locations to that in "bill2". For instance > cell B2 is now truncated where it was not in the previous sheet. Hmm, I don't see any truncated text in either bill nor bill2 using the gnumeric development version. I'll be trying 1.2.5 later today. Which version of Gnumeric and libgnomeprint/libgnomeprintui are you using? > > The font was changed from "Sans" in the imported sheet "bill2" to > "Arial" in "bill". I'm not sure how far this is significant. this shouldn't have anything to do with text truncation but it is unusual. This is puzzling. Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta
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