[KLUG Members] gnumeric problem

[Adam Williams]

>After beating my head on the keyboard for a while last night, I finally
>got gnumeric to work in my new RH 7.1 (BSware #16) installation, but with
>only a small number of strange fonts, not including Times or Helvetica.
>I've replaced most of the gnome packages and gnome-font-install 'd many
>times but still get this message when running gnome-font-install:
>root@localhost: /usr/share/fonts[root /usr/share/fonts Tue Sep 25 07:09:08]# gnome-font-install -f .
>./fontmap
>** WARNING **: Warning: the Times font was not found. Printing is unlikely
>to work unless basic fonts are installed. Please see:
>http://www.levien.com/gnome/font-install.html
>for more information.
>Apparently Levien no longer has font-install.html installed.
>None of the multiple pages I looked at from searches on gnome fonts, etc.
>discuss this as a problem.   Should I contact the gnome users/developers
>list?

What version of Gnumeric is this?  Up until VERY recently Gnumeric did not
suppoert true type fonts,  which it finally achieved via integration with
gnome-print (the GNOME print API, of sorts).  The gnumeric that shipped
with RH7.1 should be considered old.  Ximian ships gnumeric-0.67-ximian.1
which is newer.

Current version is 0.70,  go to
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gnumeric

A changelog for gnueric can be found at:
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnumeric/ChangeLog

But you will need a very current machine to run anything newer than what
Ximian provides,  so if your not running Ximian I'd try that and see if
the fonts work better, there.

Gnumeric developement is currently fast-n-furious as they are pushing for
a 1.0 release to closely track the release of GNOME 2.0.

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