Re: Two ssconvert questions.

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:00:18PM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> > http://operator.net-tech.us/test/
> >
> > This one was saved using ssconvert
> > (ssconvert xxx.xls index.html)
> > Notice that the spaces are considerably smaller.
> > In the original doc, there are four rows of space
> > here:
>
> Well, there really seem to be two empty table rows. THey are contained
> in both the XL-generated html code and the gnumeric generated code. The
> only difference is that the XL generated code contains style
> specifications refering to a style sheet that seems to contain fixed row
> heights and column widths, while the gnumeric generated html uses
> default widths.
>
> I personally don't think we should hardcode the widths and heights.   

Sounds like an option we'll probably have to look into at some
point.  The abi-folk have made a request to support col/row sizes
when exporting tables to improve interoperability.  

> > > These warning messages mean that libgnomeprint can't find Arial.
> >
> > So how should this be remedied?
They are ignorable unless you intend to print things.  We have a
hard coded internal table of common font sizes to attempt to
preserve sizes with xls files.

In the future we'll be initializing the gnome-print font only as
necessary, and the warning will disappear.