Printer fonts and screen fonts differ

[Raymond Lillard <rlillard sonic net>]

Dear Gnumeric,

I have recently built Gentoo from the ground up (is there any
other way) including Gnumeric.  For a variety of reasons I prefer
Gnumeric to OOCalc but I am having a rather severe printing
problem with a specific spreadsheet I am building.

In a nutshell, the printed (and previewed) output does not look
like what I see on the screen.  The root of the problem is that
the printed characters are wider on the paper (and in the preview)
than they are on the screen.  They may be taller too, but that
is more easily tolerated.

My problem is exacerbated by the fact that this spreadsheet has
many "super" cells that are an aggregation of adjacent cells
with several lines of wrapped text.  The differences in character
width cause additional lines of wrapping in the print version
which results in hidden text.  Opening up the on-screen version
results in unnecessary white-space due to extra cells being
needed to prevent overflow in the print version.  No matter
where or how I compensate for this, something looks ugly.

Am I missing something in the setup of my fonts?  Surely,
Gnumeric is WYSIWYG.  BTW, all of the installed fonts seem
available to Gnumeric in its Font list.

Regards,
Ray

PS Setup info follows.




My Gnumeric is:
*  app-office/gnumeric
      Latest version available: 1.4.3
      Latest version installed: 1.4.3
      Size of downloaded files: 13,434 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/
      Description: Gnumeric, the GNOME Spreadsheet
      License:     GPL-2



My fonts directory is as follows:

ryl fotd2: ll
total 236K
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  64K Jul 28 18:15 100dpi
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  64K Jul 28 18:15 75dpi
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3.4K Jul 29 23:45 README.binaries
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4.7K Jul 29 23:45 README.installer
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 28 18:15 TTF
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 28 18:15 Type1
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Jul 31 14:11 afms
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 31 18:42 artwiz
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 31 18:38 corefonts
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 28 18:15 cyrillic
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Jul 28 18:15 default
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Jul 28 18:15 encodings
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  278 Jul 31 18:41 fonts.cache-1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 31 18:40 freefont
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 28 18:15 local
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  12K Jul 28 18:15 misc
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 5.0K Jul 29 23:45 run-gnome-font-install
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 31 18:43 sharefonts
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 31 18:44 terminus
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 31 18:41 ttf-bitstream-vera
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 28 18:15 ukr
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 31 18:49 unifont
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Jul 28 18:15 util
ryl fotd2:




My X11 font section is:

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
    RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
#   FontPath     "unix/:7100"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath

# Base fonts
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/afms"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/default"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/local"
EndSection




My Gnome print tools are:

root fotd2: emerge --search gnomeprint
Searching...
[ Results for search key : gnomeprint ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]

*  gnome-base/libgnomeprint
      Latest version available: 2.10.3
      Latest version installed: 2.10.3
      Size of downloaded files: 710 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnome.org/
      Description: Printer handling for Gnome
      License:     GPL-2 LGPL-2.1

*  gnome-base/libgnomeprintui
      Latest version available: 2.10.2
      Latest version installed: 2.10.2
      Size of downloaded files: 611 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnome.org/
      Description: user interface libraries for gnome print
      License:     GPL-2 LGPL-2.1