Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On 6/13/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Note that my problem is not printing pdf files, it is creating pdf files from within gnumeric. OK, these are the dependencies I have for Gnumerics printing: libgnomeprintui-2.6.2 gtksourceview-1.0.1 libgnomeprint-2.6.2 do you have these also ? -- Kind regards, Jonathan
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 04:47 am, Jon Drews wrote: On 6/13/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Note that my problem is not printing pdf files, it is creating pdf files from within gnumeric. OK, these are the dependencies I have for Gnumerics printing: libgnomeprintui-2.6.2 I have libgnomeprintui-2-2.a libgnomeprintui-2-2.la libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.1.0 gtksourceview-1.0.1 I have /usr/ports/ports/x11/gtksourceview libgnomeprint-2.6.2 I have libgnomeprint-2-2.a libgnomeprint-2-2.la libgnomeprint-2-2.so.1.0 do you have these also ? I have what I listed. Thanks, Dave
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On Monday 13 June 2005 08:15 pm, Alec Berryman wrote: Dave Feustel on 2005-06-13 17:59:14 -0500: What about OpenOffice on OpenBSD? *ducks* It's too big for me to even try to port. I've never tried it under Linux emulation, but you might want to give that a go. In my experience, OpenOffice can open some spreadsheets Gnumeric can't. Try the 2.x branch if you can. http://cvs.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#Interact ssconvert successfully handled the MS spreadsheet that I was sent. I hesitate to get involved with OpenOffice because of the size of the package and its slowness which I remember from my attempts to use the package some time ago.
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On Monday 13 June 2005 06:55 pm, eric wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 00:58:10 +0200, Bram Van Dam proclaimed... Because that's not a spreadsheet? Your information is about as useless as his. Funny..lemme check here... From dict.org... spreadsheet n : a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen Now we can debate interactive, or I can go spend time letting latex do my formula calculations for my spreadsheets I generate hard copies of, and you can rightfully fuck off. Using LaTex could work for me since my calculations are really simple This approach is probably what I will try next until I get my 3.7 cdroms.
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On Monday 13 June 2005 05:58 pm, Jon Drews wrote: On 6/13/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can say from experience that, running with KDE, neither Kspread nor Gnumeric on OpenBSD 3.6 are useable (by me, at least) for hard copy of even simple spreadsheets. I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows computer *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and straightforwardly the hard copy I need. Neither gnumeric nor kspread running on OpenBSD 3.6 qualify on the basis of my brief experience with those two programs. Hi Dave: I am using: gnumeric-1.2.13 on OpenBSD notebook.silbsd.org 3.6 GENERIC#4 i386 I use this Gnumeric spreadsheet every day. I printed out a *.gnumeric OK here on lpr: Rank Owner Job Files Total Size active xfce 159 (standard input) 302758 bytes So it does work and work well. Are you able to print other jobs ? Yes. Note that my problem is not printing pdf files, it is creating pdf files from within gnumeric. Are you using CUPS or lpd ? I use lpd. I print postscript files to aps1. This is my printcap file: # $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $ lp|local line printer:\ :lp=/dev/lpa0:\ #:if=/etc/lpd_filters/addcr:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/text/acct: # APS1_BEGIN:printer1 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL aps1|pxlmono;r=300x300;q=high;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\ :lp=/dev/lpa0:\ :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/aps1:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/aps1/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/aps1/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # APS1_END - don't delete this
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows computer *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and straightforwardly the hard copy I need. Neither gnumeric nor kspread running on OpenBSD 3.6 qualify on the basis of my brief experience with those two programs. Windows is probably your best solution. Printing problems with those programs are not on topic for the misc@ list. If those programs were printing to the OpenBSD print spooler and there was a problem with the print spooler, THEN this would be on topic.
OT Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
Man, we're wandering way OT with these posts. I use OpenBSD on servers all day long, but I type this from an ssh session initiated from my Windows system located on my desktop. If you want a system that's relatively easy to use for a desktop system pickup a Walmart $199 box, it has the cleanest Linux install I've ever seen. FWIW we blow away the Linux install on it for OpenBSD but we left one with it's stock Xandros install on for grins and giggles in the office. It's the slickest thing I've seen for the pointn' und clickn' user in the unix-like world. diana
Re: [OT] Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:12:56AM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: [...] Since you don't mention any particular format requirements, I'll assume that any spreadsheet will suffice as long as the features are there. [...] Sorry for beeing offtopic. In germany we call those spreadsheet tools Tabellenkalkulation, translated table calculation. That's awk(1). There're some nice tools preinstalled on every OpenBSD for doing spreadsheets: vi(1), awk(1), [ng]roff(1), maybe latex(1) or lout(1) from ports (the latter in CVS since a few hours).
Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
I write this as a person very committed to OpenBSD as a secure desktop. I can say from experience that, running with KDE, neither Kspread nor Gnumeric on OpenBSD 3.6 are useable (by me, at least) for hard copy of even simple spreadsheets. I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows computer *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and straightforwardly the hard copy I need. Neither gnumeric nor kspread running on OpenBSD 3.6 qualify on the basis of my brief experience with those two programs. I will continue to use OpenBSD for accessing the internet, but my business related computing/printing tasks may well have to be done on Windows. Dave Feustel
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 16:49:14 -0500, Dave Feustel proclaimed... I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows computer *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and straightforwardly the hard copy I need. Neither gnumeric nor kspread running on OpenBSD 3.6 qualify on the basis of my brief experience with those two programs. Why don't you learn how to use TeX or LaTeX? I will continue to use OpenBSD for accessing the internet, but my business related computing/printing tasks may well have to be done on Windows. Great, thanks for that pointlessly off-topic information.
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On Monday 13 June 2005 05:02 pm, eric wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 16:49:14 -0500, Dave Feustel proclaimed... I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows computer *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and straightforwardly the hard copy I need. Neither gnumeric nor kspread running on OpenBSD 3.6 qualify on the basis of my brief experience with those two programs. Why don't you learn how to use TeX or LaTeX? I have been considering this - I really like LaTex and its print formatting capabilities. I will continue to use OpenBSD for accessing the internet, but my business related computing/printing tasks may well have to be done on Windows. Great, thanks for that pointlessly off-topic information.
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 00:58:10 +0200, Bram Van Dam proclaimed... Because that's not a spreadsheet? Your information is about as useless as his. Funny..lemme check here... From dict.org... spreadsheet n : a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen Now we can debate interactive, or I can go spend time letting latex do my formula calculations for my spreadsheets I generate hard copies of, and you can rightfully fuck off.
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On 6/13/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can say from experience that, running with KDE, neither Kspread nor Gnumeric on OpenBSD 3.6 are useable (by me, at least) for hard copy of even simple spreadsheets. I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows computer *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and straightforwardly the hard copy I need. Neither gnumeric nor kspread running on OpenBSD 3.6 qualify on the basis of my brief experience with those two programs. Hi Dave: I am using: gnumeric-1.2.13 on OpenBSD notebook.silbsd.org 3.6 GENERIC#4 i386 I use this Gnumeric spreadsheet every day. I printed out a *.gnumeric OK here on lpr: Rank Owner Job Files Total Size active xfce 159 (standard input) 302758 bytes So it does work and work well. Are you able to print other jobs ? Are you using CUPS or lpd ? -- Kind regards, Jonathan
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
On Monday 13 June 2005 05:38 pm, Gupni ^sr Bjvrgvinsson wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: I write this as a person very committed to OpenBSD as a secure desktop. I can say from experience that, running with KDE, neither Kspread nor Gnumeric on OpenBSD 3.6 are useable (by me, at least) for hard copy of even simple spreadsheets. I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows computer *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and straightforwardly the hard copy I need. Neither gnumeric nor kspread running on OpenBSD 3.6 qualify on the basis of my brief experience with those two programs. I will continue to use OpenBSD for accessing the internet, but my business related computing/printing tasks may well have to be done on Windows. Dave Feustel Why are you blaming OpenBSD for an application that they didn't write or came anything to do with except porting it? You misunderstand the message. I am not blaming OpenBSD - just reporting a problem with the platform which may well not be significant enough for OpenBSD developers to attend to. If that's the case, C'est La Vie. If the port isn't good enough for your you should file a bug report There are simply too many bugs to report where printing is concerned. or better yet, find out *why* gnumeric is too unstable for you. gnumeric often crashes instead of printing what I specify. What about OpenOffice on OpenBSD? *ducks* It's too big for me to even try to port. Regards,
Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?
Dave Feustel on 2005-06-13 17:59:14 -0500: What about OpenOffice on OpenBSD? *ducks* It's too big for me to even try to port. I've never tried it under Linux emulation, but you might want to give that a go. In my experience, OpenOffice can open some spreadsheets Gnumeric can't. Try the 2.x branch if you can. http://cvs.openbsd.org/faq/faq9.html#Interact
