Re: guessing font width

[Jon K Hellan <hellan acm org>]

bill lam wrote:
> On Thu, 14 May 2009, Jon K Hellan wrote:
> > The procedure I suggested will build the version Debian ships, using the same development
> > pacakages. With the changes you make to the source yourself, of course :-) If you're still
> > getting build problems, I guess it could be mixing up libraries you've built from tarballs
> > with stuff installed from packages.
> >
> > I fully appreciate if you don't have time to do the test, but if you were able to check it,
> > we could include it in the source. You can remove the extra debian packages afterwards.
> > However, you do need the disk space for the build.
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> I built the 1.9.3 tarball again and it completed without error
> together with the change in font metric as you had suggested.  I guess
> my gtk toolchain might become inconsistent because I had build 1.9.4
> earlier successfully.
>
> I had enough disk space but only that I want my computer to be
> gnome/gconf/kde starch free.
>
> Gnumeric now can open excel files without any font related warnings. ;-)

What about the column widths? Do they look right now?

Regards

Jon Kåre