Re: 'Production Ready'? Not Exactly

[Dave Feustel <dfeustel verizon net>]

On Monday 06 June 2005 08:22 pm, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > I have to conclude that no one at gnome
> > actually prints much with this spreadsheet program.
>
> It's hard to figure out exactly what is broken for you.  If it is something
> specific, you might want to file a detailed bug report at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

The main problem is it seems to be impossible to tell whether the
spreadsheet is too wide for the paper until it is printed. There are
other problems. I create a pdf file, view the file with xpdf, then
print the file with lpr -P aps1 <filename>. More direct methods
don't currently work for me. Overwriting output.pdf crashes 
gnumeric 100% of the time.

> You should, btw., probably try using a recent version unless you
> have very good reasons for staying behind.

I'm running on OpenBSD. While I can keep current on some programs
by recompiling them, gnumeric seems to use everything but the kitchen
sink and I have a slow computer, so I use the OpenBSD gnumeric 
package in 3.6 right now. I will upgrade to 3.7 and its gnumeric package
in a month or two when my finances improve.

Two other nits are that gnumeric defaults to A4 and there does not
seem to be a configuration process where I can set printer defaults
(US letter size, print to pdf file) that are convenient for me.