Hi Andreas, Based on Jean's answer I figured out what was wrong. It seems that I only replied to him. I am sorry about that. The short answer is that I did something stupid: I saved an .xls file with the .gnumeric extension (but I kept the type to be MS Excel). Here is the longer answer I sent to Jean:
"Thanks for your reply. Indeed the file was corrupted. The original file was a .xls file that I downloaded from the government website and I wanted to save it as a gnumeric file. I changed the name to file.gnumeric but I forgot to change the type of the file to gnumeric. So the file had the .gnumeric extension but it was, in fact, still a .xls file. I am not sure how I missed that because gnumeric certainly warned me about the incompatible file types." Thanks again for your replies and for gnumeric. Marius On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Andreas J. Guelzow <aguel...@pyrshep.ca> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
