On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 12:28, Chris Dunn < wrote:
I love Gnumeric but my inability to format and print stuff is stopping me from using it for all purposes at present. Using : Slackware 9.1, kernel 2.4.22 Gnumeric 1.2.0 as packaged with Slackware. Turboprint driver with a cheap inkjet Canon printer. The printer behaves itself reasonably well with all other apps. When I print from Gnumeric I get the following problems : 1. # signs where cell contents are not fitting within a column width. The date is a good example, and this problem seems somewhat random. '26-Sep-03' prints but '23-Sep-03' prints as # signs. The entries appear OK in the spreadsheet display and the problem only occurs in "print preview" and in printing. "print preview" is consistent with the printout.
The font resolution when printing is different from the on-screen resolution. Unfortunately glyph width does not scale linearly with the resolution, so some strings are wider when printed than when shown on screen. You simply need to make the columns wide enough to allow for the width required when printing. (I hate fonts in which the various digits do not have exactly the same width. Apparently in the font of your choice, the 3 is a smidge wider than the 6.)
2. Printed text is truncated at the boundary (boundary not printed) of a column instead of continuing into the next (empty column). This too seems arbitrary in that some text prints across the border, other text doesn't.
This is usually a result of the content of the cell overprinted (the cell must be completely empty to be overprinted) and the way the content of the current cell was created. Strings will try to overprint the next cell, function results will not. Andreas -- Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca> Taliesin
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