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Gnumeric 1.3.92 aka Release Candidate 1

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-11-03 12:51. Gnumeric
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Gnumeric 1.3.92 aka "Release Candidate 1" is now available.

With this release we have gone through lots of old bug reports and fixed
a large number of little things that should make Gnumeric a more polished
application.

People with broken printer configurations -- you know who you are -- will
take delight in the delayed initialization of Gnome Print. A broken CUPS
configuration will no longer cause a hang on startup.

Work is underway to make a Win32 binary. Since there are a number
of problems left with the current build of it -- such as display problems
beyond row 1400 -- we are still holding it back. More later.

  • Andreas
    • Fix text export dialog [Bug 155437, Bug 154231].
    • Skip sheet selection in text export if there is only one
      non-empty sheet. [Bug 156604].
    • Make print dialog less modal. [Bug 132876].
    • Make non-imported columns in configurable text import more
      visible [Bug 154139].
    • Suppress warnings when filling with large series. [Bug 153527].
    • Improve format page in configurable text import [Bug 154138,
      Bug 139385].
    • Improve schema description [Bug 153631].
    • Warn if csv import is dropping columns [Bug 139385].
    • Change menu text in fixed cvs import [Bug 154137].
    • Add format descriptor to column headers in text import. [Bug 154140].
    • Fix various bugs [Bug 156531, Bug 156710].
    • Add tooltips to buttons in text export sheet selection.
    • Add top and bottom buttons to text export sheet selection.
    • Disable buttons in text export sheet selection when not applicable.
    • Fix LaTeX export of cells spanning to the left [Bug 157047].
  • Arief Mulya Utama
    • Erlang (telecommunications engineering) plugin.
  • Emmanuel Pacaud
    • Add dash styles to chart objects.
    • Enables non integer line width for chart objects.
    • Fix clipping in svg export.
    • Update labels automatically [Bug 152585].
  • Hal Ashburner
    • Some function documentation cleanups.
  • Jody
    • Enable selecting and moving multiple drawing objects.
    • Swap X & Y axis content when importing xls bar plots. [Bug 154734].
    • Basic handling for XL 'Forms' Objects.
    • Fix handling of empty arguments in nested expressions.
    • Delay gnome-print init to decrease startup time.
    • Improve OOo import for styles.
    • Some support for newer Lotus-123 formats.
    • Translate autoformat categories and descriptions.
    • Re-enable the ui plugin service.
    • Rename x-quattro-pro to match freedesktop [Bug 152159].
    • Have text in item-edit does reflect zoom.
    • Show the right rich text format when clicking on edit line.
    • Finish rich text persistence for gnumeric xml and clipboard.
  • Morten
    • Implement Edit->Select->Input. [Bug 154735].
    • Fix sample datasource's recalc. [Bug 154857].
    • Make File->Open start in the directory where the current file
      was loaded. [Bug 143188].
    • Make it possible to unhide sheets. [Bug 154710].
    • Add HYPOT function. [Bug 148322].
    • Add PFACTOR function.
    • Plug leaks.
    • Revive logic to add missing parenthesis in parser.
    • Fix evil timing issue in about dialog. [Bug 155268].
    • Fix window menu in case of "_" in names. [Bug 155235].
    • Add support for setting text and markup in buttons.
    • Fix XL save crash. [Bug 155371].
    • Limit the width of search window. [Bug 136421].
    • Protect against crash in inter-process paste.
    • Make URLs work from Nautilus. [Bug 156456].
    • Fix pgamma accuracy for extreme arguments.
    • Improve accuracy of a few complex number functions.
    • Make sure basenames of files can be seen during splash for
      multiple files.
    • Fix undo column crash. [Bug 157045].
  • Yukihiro Nakai
    • Improve perl plugin.
    • Fix various untranslated GUI elements.
    • Bullet-proof plugin loader.

Availability

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.3/

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screenshots ?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-04 04:38.

are there any screenshots showing off the new features ?

I think that open source software needs a bit more marketing: interview the coders, write some tutorials etc. And of course show a lot of screenshots! This really helps. When I talk to people about free software and open source, most of the time they keep asking me: what does it look like ? Sure, I give them a Knoppix-CD and let them play, but often some screenshots showing off some cool features are just enough. They get motivated and start searching around for themselfs.

OK, a bit off topic here, but I had to say this.

On topic: I'm really looking forward to the new gnumeric release!
Keep up the great work guys!

Problems with margins in printing

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-04 02:57.

I have installed Gnumeric in office machines, but people doesn't work with it because of problems with saving printing configuration and format getting crazy when you adjust printing margins.

Is new version of Gnumeric fixed in that respect? My people is using now Openoffice to avoiding that problem, but I'd like they used Gnumeric instead. It has more options and functions and it is more lightweight. A very good tool :)

Thanks for all good work in Gnumeric.

It should be alot better

Submitted by jody on Fri, 2004-11-05 10:11.

1.3.92 delays print setup and gives the margins a more comfortable lifecycle. There are still some issues with changing printers.

Conditional formatting?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-04 01:22.

While we're whining about features...

Is "conditional formatting" on the schedule?

Thanks!

Gnumeric is a great product, and I use it often in my business.

Not for 1.4

Submitted by jody on Thu, 2004-11-04 13:01.

This is one of those features that is actually simple for us to implement, but hard to edit. What we really need here is input from the usability team. Getting a reasonable interface to conditional or calculated formats is non-trivial, and we need some help.

text orientation and intra cell text formatting?

Submitted by foo on Wed, 2004-11-03 17:43.

I ask every time so I'll ask again... What is the status of cell text formatting? Especially text orientation but also including: italics for part of the cell contents, colors, bold, font size, for parts of the cell text?

Thanks. I hate to sound like I only complain about gnumeric but the reason I ask is because I really like gnumeric, think it is a fantastic app, but currently cannot use it at my work because of the lack of formatting options.

Thanks.

rich text is supported, text orientation soon

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-04 12:45.

We've had rich text support (including xls import export) for a while now. 1.3.92 fixes a few irritations when editing, and can finally persist it to/from .gnumeric files. As far as I am concered this feature is complete. If there are problems/limitations please file something in bugzilla.

Rotated text will be supported now that pango-1.6 supports it. We did not add it for this release because pango-1.6 is too new.

Jody

Yep, you complain every singl by Anonymous George

What's new for average users ?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-11-03 15:43.

apt-cache policy gnumeric
gnumeric:
Installés : 1.2.13-1ubuntu2

So what can expect users like me from the upgrade ?

Re: What's new for average users ?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-04 04:00.

You can expect to have the new version in Sarge+1. That's about three years from now ;-)

Win32

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-11-03 14:12.

Hows the top secret win32 port going btw?

Win32 ? Who cares?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-11-11 15:32.

From the top of the page:

Work is underway to make a Win32 binary. Since there are a number of problems left with the current build of it -- such as display problems beyond row 1400 -- we are still holding it back.