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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