First Submission: Here is something that I hacked up for use at work. It'd be nice to get it or and less-assclownish version in so that I don't have to keep applying it. Basically it allows you to call gnumeric with --print like so: gnumeric --print /home/matthew/bill_of_lading.gnumeric ...and gnumeric will print the active sheet and then exit, without throwing up any GUI elements. It's *not* a console-only app. Hacking the X dependencies out would be difficult, if not impossible. We've been using it, and it works well. I have no problem "owning" it if that's an issue. The patch applies to gnumeric 1.0.4. OK, now for some gushing: I *love* this spreadsheet. :-) I used it at work to create our Form Letter Implementation Program (FLIP). In a nutshell we use gnumeric to clone an existing business document, such as a Bill of Lading or an RMA, filling in XXXX's where the dynamic content will be. I then run a little program that I wrote that unzips the spreadsheet, hits the Oracle database, fills in the XXXX's, then calls gnumeric with --print to print it. Pretty cool. Got us out of a $20000.00 investment in crappy reporting software. Thanks a lot. Matthew
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