Re: guessing font width

[bill lam <cbill lam gmail com>]

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Jon K Hellan wrote:
> bill lam wrote:
> > I use gnumeric on debian and I use dejavu sans mono, but each time
> > gnumeric started opening excel files will give a warning
> >
> > ** (gnumeric:11164): WARNING **: EXCEL : unknown widths for font
> > 'DejaVu Sans Mono', guessing
> >
> > the width it guessed seemed smaller than actual and it made column
> > width that based on this font be narrower than it should be.  Why does
> > it need to guess when that dejavu  font has been installed in system?
> > (I can choose the font within gnumeric's font dialog box).
> >
> > gnumeric version '1.9.4'
> >
> > thanks in advances.
>
> The way the Excel plugin handles font metrics can certainly be improved. We use a static table,
> However, DejaVu is basically Bitstream Vera with more Unicode characters added, right? Could you
> see if things look better if you add a line
>
>               { "DejaVu Sans Mono",    9,     0x0900, 32.0 },
>
>
> after the "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" line in plugins/excel/ms-excel-util.c, l.280 or so?
> If you aren't used to building from source, the easiest way on Debian is:
>
>   apt-get source gnumeric
>   apt-get build-dep gnumeric
>   apt-get install fakeroot
>   cd <gnumeric source directory>
>   dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>   cd ..
>   dpkg -i gnumeric-x.y.z-blabla.deb

Thank you for help.  I built gnumeric from source until recently that
it failed to compiled under debian lenny.  I'm not sure if the problem
related to gtk (lenny use gtk 2.12.12-1~lenny1) or newer gnumeric
source or gcc. When linking it aborted with

/usr/lib/libgoffice-0.8.so: undefined reference to `g_content_type_from_mime_type'
/usr/lib/libgoffice-0.8.so: undefined reference to `g_dgettext'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

building from debian is not feasible because it automatically pull
tons of gnome files for installation.

Anyway I'll workaround by using fonts available in the ms-excel-util.c
file.  Thanks again.

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