[KLUG Members] gnumeric problem

[Ralph M. Deal]

Adam Williams wrote:

> 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.

0.61-7 came with BSware 7.1 #16

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

Indeed, version is there and I downloaded it.   When I tried to install
the rpm,
I discovered that it needed 7 packages which were too old.  Now if I
update those 
packages, I'll be in deep trouble with other packages that share those
utilities so I've not installed 0.70.
 
> 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.


Neat.  Now if only I can get it to run correctly on my machine...
	
	Thanks, Adam,      Ralph deal@kzoo.edu