Robert wrote:
Has anyone here replaced the openoffice.org packages with those that were distributed with FC3? It's either that for me or simply scrapping CentOS in favor of FC3 (or even FC1). I'm very surprised that I can find no reports regarding the impossibility of formatting multi-page spreadsheets to print properly.
Answering my own question.... Removing (rpm -e) openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-18.6.EL4 openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-18.6.EL4 openoffice.org-1.1.2-18.6.EL4 openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-18.6.EL4 and installing openoffice.org-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm from the FC3 CDs (specifically CD 1,2 and 4) restored my ability to print spreadsheets properly. This was both on a test box, printing across the network and on the machine I'm using at this moment. The fact that both machines exhibited the same behavior using the .EL4 version would seem to rule out some goofy install problem. The fact that relief was instant following the installation of the older files would seem to rule out a "senior moment" on my part -- which was an open question in my mind for some time. So, as far as usability, this is a case of "all's well that ends". Yet, it would be interesting to know if the OpenOffice.org developers let such a glaring bug escape, if the bug was a RedHat enhancement, if perhaps there was some unheralded error in the rebuild process or maybe a download error here.