Re: printing blanks

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed reedmedia net>]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 02:59:54PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > When I try to Print Preview or print (to postscript or pdf) an imported
> > excel file, it is just blank. But the headers and footers are there.
> >
> > Now, I am looking closer by zooming in about ten times -- it is
> > printing. But the whole page spreadsheet is only about the size of one
> > character!

> Hmm that is odd.  The good news is that it works as expected with
> 0.70 & cvs.  The bad news is that I don't think anything has changed
> since 0.68.  My guess is that it is related to the zoom feature for
> printing.  Double check in the print setup that the scale factor is
> set to something sane.  If that fails put a break in
>     src/print.c:setup_scale
> and have a look at what scale factor is being used.

Thank you Jody!

For some reason, the Print Setup Page Scale Adjust to was set to only 1%
of normal size. I moved it to 100% and it worked fine. Since my last
email, I had received a second spreadsheet from the same person and it
also had the same problem.

I had overlooked that even though I had glanced through the Print Setup.

I am not sure, but I would guess that the original Excel file under Excel
was not scaled to only 1 percent.

>     I noticed your activity log detailing difficulties installing
>     gnumeric on netbsd where you mentioed requiring _76_ new
>     packages to install gnumeric.  You can relax that quite a bit
>     by ignoring some of the plugins.
>       - guile
>       - perl
>       - python
>       - gb
>       - gda
>     Are all optional.  Gnumeric works and functions jsut fine
>     without them. Have a look in the README or the website for
>     details.

If I have some time, I'll try to look through all the NetBSD package
dependencies and make sure that they don't require packages they don't
need. (I was using packages or package build instructions built by someone
else.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/