Good morning (here) Andreas, On 23 Jan 2004 06:53:46 -0700 "Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca> wrote: > 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. Brain fade. I'm waiting on a transplant. In the mean time I'm trying to replace Openoffice with Abiword and Gnumeric. The OO file is attached. > > 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? Gnumeric is the stock 1.2.0 included with Slackware 9.1. Libgnomeprint/libgnomeprintui are also both Slackware 9.1 packages, versions libgnomeprint-2.3.1-i486-1 and libgnomeprintui-2.3.1-i486-1. > > 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 > Chris Dunn -------------------------------------------- Diamond Construction Ltd PO Box 354, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos telephone : 1 (649) 941 4716 fax : 1 (649) 941 4765 Fri Jan 23 09:12:01 EST 2004 --------------------------------------------
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