On Wednesday 22 June 2005 10:00 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:01:48PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 08:41 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:30:21PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Sounds like another bug in the BSD package. > > > > > > > > I have worked my way through my printing problems > > > What was the solution ? > > > > Adding Headers and Footers, then getting them to print > > with the headers and footers, printing to pdf file puts each > > sheet on a separate page, which I was previously accomplishing > > by printing each sheet to a separate file. Now I just print the entire > > spreadsheet to a single pdf file and then print the pdf file using > > lpr. > > > > Gnumeric is no longer crashing on me, but I save my changes frequently > > just in case. > > This sounds like voodoo. > Something was crashing repeatably it would be nice to know what.
It's not voodoo. I stopped trying to do the things that I had figured out crashed gnumeric. Yesterday gnumeric went catatonic after I deleted a pdf file that gnumeric had apparently not let go of. I aborted and then restarted gnumeric with no ill effects. > > Ideally I would like to be able to recompile Gnumeric from source. > > With that capability I could start tweaking the code :-). > Building gnumeric is fairly trivial at this point _if_ you have the > dependencies installed. For a system that has not been used for > development there can be a rather significant number of build tools > and development libraries required. > > > I like to think that I am very good at testing. One of the problems with > > reporting bugs in Gnumeric is that the version I'm using has so many > > bugs, possibly because in OpenBSD the user application file structure > > is not like other systems. (Most, if not all application files go into > > /usr/local/ rather than into /usr). > Unlikely, gnumeric is completely parallel installable (or at least > it was, libspreadsheet needs versionsing for 1.5.3 to restore this). > I haven't run a copy out of /usr in months. > > > I will document bugs with bug reports > > more often when I am working with a more current version of Gnumeric. > > I see a lot of error messages in the console log - a feature I like since it > > shows that gnumeric is aware of things going wrong. > > Sounds good. Detailed problem reports are helpful. > _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
