Re: Graphs in Gnumeric

[Jon Trowbridge <trow ximian com>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:06:50PM +0000, Bart Kuik wrote:
> On 27 Mar 2001 18:15:57 +0200, Matthias Warkus wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've done an evaluation of ca. 160 questionnaires with Gnumeric. So
> > far, it worked like a charm. It seems, however, that there is, after
> > years and years, after the third rewrite of Guppi and an abandoned
> > attempt to write a graph component, still no way to generate a graph
> > in Gnumeric.
> > 
> > Or am I mistaken?
> > 
> 
> afaik Guppi is a bonobo-component that's embeddable in Gnumeric.... You
> have to compile Gnumeric with '--with-bonobo' enabled (it's not
> reccomended for precompiled stuff) and it works great. If I just
> remembered how to install the urw-fonts for gnome-print....

This is correct.  I don't know what the precise plans are, but the
bonobo-enabled gnumeric should be packaged sometime post-1.4.  When this
happens, the main "entry barrier" to using Guppi with Gnumeric (i.e. the
need to build gnumeric from the sources) will have been removed.

-JT