Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:06 -0500, Robert wrote:
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.
Robert,
The latest version of OOo for CentOS-4 (openoffice.org-1.1.2-22.6.EL4) spreadsheet prints fine for me ... not sure exactly what the error you had was.
1. There is no excuse for the tone of my original post.
2. Looks like openoffice.org.i386-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4 is available now. I'll try it either this evening or tomorrow. It's no big deal, now that I know the way back.
3. I'll attempt to explain the original complaint. I have a spreadsheet that is 11 columns x 380 rows. The last time I printed it was several months ago and it required 8 pages. Whenever I print any spreadsheet I always do a File -> Page Preview first, then flip through the pages to see that I haven't done something stupid like failing to set the print area to include the growth records and to make any adjustment to bottom margin needed to avoid goofy stuff like a page with only 1 line. My first clue that something was different came when there was no page flippin' to be done ' cause I was looking at "page 1 of 1". It was almost like OOo was setup to use roll paper -- which I haven't seen some of in quite a while. Clicking the "Page Format" button and running through the several tabs revealed nothing of interest. In the "Sheet" tab, "Scale" section, the "Reduce/Enlarge printout" bullet was ticked and the reduction was set to something like 54%. Instead of reducing the number of sheets indicated from 9 to 5, it just considered the whole thing a single sheet. I tried ticking the "Fit printout on number of pages" bullet with limited success. I didn't print the whole spreadsheet using that setting but I have a first sheet here with a partial row at the bottom.
4. I still have no earthly idea what happened. I just checked my CDs (specifically, #2) and found that the version in question is on the CD. I KNOW I used Bittorrent to download the isos. I can't swear that I checked the MD5 sums before burning.
I WILL investigate further.
Thanks for the response!