Re: Saving a histogram plot

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 09:25 -0500, Marius Ionescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to draw a histogram based on the income distribution in
> US. I can draw the picture I want, but the next time I open the file
> the picture is blank. I am using Gnumeric 1.10.8 on Ubuntu 10.10.
> Here are the steps that I perform:
>
> The bins (intervals) are:
>
> 0 15000 25000 35000 50000 75000 100000 200000
>
> and the percentages  are:
>
> 8.1 9.0 9.7 13.6 19.4 14.3 26.0
>
> This means that 8.1 percent lie between 0 and 15000, and so on. I
> select the first row, press Ctrl, and then select the second row. Then
> I press the chart button and I select "Statistics" and from the
> available options I select "Histogram". The graph is as it should be
> (that is, scaled to take into account the fact that the intervals do
> not have the same length). I save the file and exit gnumeric. The next
> time I open it with Gnumeric, the picture is blank and if I
> right-click and select properties, I do not see any histogram and data
> in there. They vanished. I tried saving the file as a gnumeric file
> and as xls. The same result. If I open the xls file with OpenOffice, I
> can see a graph, only that it is incorrect (all the scaling is gone;
> it is just a plain bar graph of the original percentages). But in
> Gnumeric I don't see even this graph when I open it again.
>
> Is this a (known) bug in Gnumeric? Am I doing something wrong?
Hi Marius,

It seems to be unlikely that you are doing something wrong that could
cause this. Please file a report at bugzilla.gnome.org including the
file you are saving. 

Andreas