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- >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey J Kosowsky <kosowsky@bellini.harvard.edu> writes:
- In article <KOSOWSKY.96Jan17105009@bellini.harvard.edu> kosowsky@bellini.harvard.edu (Jeffrey J. Kosowsky) writes:
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- Jeff> I have had good luck so far editing spreadsheets in Excel
- Jeff> 3.0a on my P5-100 running Linux & XFree86 (Thanks,
- Jeff> ardi). Everything seems to work pretty well.
-
- Yay.
-
- Jeff> My problem is with printing. The "page setup" command only
- Jeff> offers a bare-bones minimum of choices. Most glaringly it
- Jeff> does not allow landscape printing, you can't change the
- Jeff> scale and you can't select the page range -- all of these
- Jeff> options are critical for many if not most spreadsheet
- Jeff> applications.
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- Excel 4 allows scaling, but the lack of Landscape vs. Portrait and
- page ranges are indeed a lack in Executor. It's too late to add them
- to Executor 2, but we will try to get them in fairly soon thereafter.
- Under NEXTSTEP the NEXTSTEP printing mechanism automatically handles
- this, and when we ported to DOS and Linux we overlooked this feature
- until it was too late.
-
- Jeff> Unfortunately, I now have to shutdown & Linux and reboot
- Jeff> under the Windoze version of Excel to print my
- Jeff> spreadsheets. This is unfortunate since the major reason
- Jeff> that I run & love Executor is that it allows me to use
- Jeff> Micro$oft applications under Linux
-
- I can certainly appreciate your problem, but by getting Executor 2
- shipping we should be able to hire more engineers and get more done
- per day than we currently do, so I can't justify holding Executor 2
- back to add this (not that you were asking us to).
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- Jeff> Is there a more feature-rich (PostScript) printer driver? Is
- Jeff> this a problem just with Excel 3.0a or is it just that the
- Jeff> general PostScript printer driver is not yet completed.
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- Excel 4 is a little nicer, but you still won't get Portrait
- vs. Landscape or page ranges. Sorry.
-
- Jeff> Thanks, Jeff
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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