1.6.3: can't print in landscape

[sean <seandarcy2 gmail com>]

I'm using fedora core 6, but because I'm not nearly this 
good at ascii art, I've copied Debian bug 405385:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist lists debian org/msg287612.html

^^^^

Package: Gnumeric
Version: 1.6.3


When printing a spreadsheet from gnumeric in landscape mode 
the text is printed perpendicular to the paper and extends 
off the edge.

For example, if one has created a spreadsheet which is to 
wide for printing in portrait such as this one:

--------
|A wide |spreadhseet
|       |
|       |
|       |
|       |
---------


You would try to print it in landscape:

---------------
| Landscape   |
|             |
|             |
---------------


But gnumeric is printing it like this (the text is also 
rotated 90 degress which I can't show here):

---------------
|        L    |
|        a    |
|        n    |
---------d-----
         s
         c
         a
         p
         e

This problem shows up in both in print preview as well as 
actual printing.


There is an option in gnumeric page setup to rotate "feed 
orientation" 90 degrees but I believe this only refers to 
the way in which the printers feed mechanism works and is 
not related to the formatting of the text on the page as 
such. This does make the page show up correctly in print 
preview however, but my printer does not have a landscape 
paper feeder and so it will not print.

I believe this problem did no occur in Gnueric 1.4.3-4 in 
Debian Stable
I am using Gnumeric 1.6.3 in Debian Etch.

This may be related to a known bug in Gnumeric:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328926
, though that bug is Gnumeric on MS Windows.


^^^^^

sean