Your query to gnumeric-list

[Richard Bumby <bumby math rutgers edu>]

I just clicked on "Reply" instead of "Reply-all" when I sent this, so 
you didn't get included.  Here is my reply:

Jon K Hellan wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:43 -0500, David Ronis wrote:
>  
>
> > I've been having intermittant problems with gnumeric-1.5.90.1 
> > printing in landscape mode.  I set this up using the page setup 
> > dialog,  and it shows landscape as selected in the print 
> > dialog--unfortunately, the result is sometimes portrate.
> >   
>
>
> Known bug. When you change printer, the format is reset to portrait. So
> choose printer first, then printer.
>
>  
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> > A more pressing problem concerns where I work, a windows environment; 
> > spreadsheets that are circulated have migrated to a web page html 
> > format, something gnumeric doesn't know how to read.  Is there a way 
> > to do this and if not, is this "feature" in the works?
> >   
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> We do have html import, but it isn't perfect. It could be that gnumeric
> doesn't understand that the page is html. In that case, saving it to
> disk while giving it the extension ".html" would help. You could also
> try copying the page to clipboard and pasting it into gnumeric.
> If gnumeric understands that it is html, but can't parse it, please file
> a bug, and include a sample of the html.
>
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I have seen that in my University.  The powers-that-be distribute 
rosters in what they have always called "Excel format", but last year 
they were SYLK files that would be displayed as text in Netscape and its 
descendants.  Saving the file from this view would allow a suitable name 
to be chosen.  Then, gnumeric would be able to open the file 
automatically.  This year, they changed to an html format (actually a 
simple table), but used a name of the form *.xls, and probably also 
identified the file as a spreadsheet in their server.  Clicking on 
"Download" gives a blank page (probably because secure access is used 
for this material) that cannot be opened as a spreadsheet in gnumeric, 
but can be saved, renamed to something.html and opened automatically in 
gnumeric.  If the *.xls name is accepted, the page could still be opened 
by manually selecting html as the file type.  Other pages that I could 
see could be transferred to gnumeric using the clipboard.

--RTBumby
Rutgers University Math Dept.