GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 137927
Print preview problems with empty LANG setting
Last modified: 2006-12-20 08:29:39 UTC
[Based on http://bugs.debian.org/238944] When LANG is set to the empty string (and LC_* are unset), there is a problem with File -> Print Preview (and probably File -> Print itself). The original reporter, working on a Debian sarge (testing) system with gnumeric 1.2.6, reports seeing/getting blank pages when using a sheet where a few cells have been filled with random numbers. I myself, testing with text as well, under 1.2.8 on sid, get some symbols, but they appear to be from a dingbats type font.
Tossing to gnome-print. For the record, I do not see it.
Which version of gnomeprint and gnomeprintui are you running. Do you have any output on the console if you run gnumeric from there. Could you attach a gnumeric file that shows the described problem?
On my system, it's libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.4.2-4 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.4.2-2 No console output is produced. The test file's contents can be arbitrary.
Created attachment 25897 [details] Test file
Created attachment 25898 [details] Screenshot of the preview window
The file content does matter: it seems text in `Sans' is not shown correctly, but text in other fonts is correctly shown.
Works now with this test file. Assuming fixed.
Created attachment 78666 [details] New test case "Sans" is working now for me with gnumeric 1.7.6, but text in other fonts still disappears. Out of "Sans", "Helvetica", "Courier", "Courier New", "Lucida", "Times" and "Times New Roman", only text in "Sans", "Courier New" and "Times New Roman" is shown in the print preview; text in "Helvetica", "Courier", "Lucida" and "Times" disappears (regardless of whether I work with the empty locale settings from the initial report, or with my regular locale settings). Please reopen this report.