Created attachment 295821 [details]
example with scrollbar

Recipe:
  Look at the attached .gnumeric file to see the desired layout.
  $x/ssconvert sine-cosine-horiz.gnumeric sine-cosine-horiz.xls
  Open the .xls file.
  Observe that the scrollbar is now vertical, which is not desired.

For extra exercise:
  Use the properties dialog to make it horizontal.
  Write out the .xls file.
  Reopen the .xls file.
  Observe that the scrollbar is horizontal again.
  Unsurprisingly, the problem is not unique to ssconvert per se.

Tangential remark: even though .xls is "older" than .xlsx, gnumeric
does a better job with .xls in several areas that are critical to me.
Also, .xls works better than .ods.


$x/gnumeric --version
gnumeric version '1.12.20'
datadir := '/usr/src/gnumeric/gitball/gnumeric/1.12.20'
libdir := '/usr/src/gnumeric/gitball/'

uname -a
Linux asclepias 3.18.0+ #2 SMP Sun Dec 21 18:25:03 MST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux