[18388] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.4.13: xess
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marleigh I Norton)
Tue Oct 10 14:02:46 2000
Message-Id: <200010101802.OAA05649@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:02:42 -0400
From: Marleigh I Norton <marleigh@MIT.EDU>
System name: geskekelud.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.4.13 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: twm
What were you trying to do?
Print a document using the Athena default version of xess (4.something,
I think). The document had multiple sheets. I wanted just the filled
out cells on each sheet to be printed, as should be the default.
What's wrong:
When you print a multiple sheet document in xess (and I mean sheet in
the xess sense, nothing to do with page breaks), it prints the number of
cells the greater sheet has. That makes no sense. An example:
Sheet one has 10 columns and 10 rows
Sheet two has 8 columns and 8 rows
If either sheet were printed as a seperate document, the only printed
portion would be the rows and columns used, so sheet 1 would have 100
cells printed and sheet 2 would have 64. If they are both sheets of the
same document, it takes the greated of both columns and prints that many
columns for each sheet. Same for rows. In our example, sheet 1 has
more rows and columns than sheet 2, so it will print according to the
dimensions of sheet 1, 10x10, 100 cells. This means when sheet 2 is
printed, it will have 36 extra blank cells, taking up lots of space and
doing nothing.
What should have happened:
Only the filled out portion of each sheet should have been printed.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
An olc question was asked about this. They were the one's who mentioned
that it was probably a bug. I don't know if there are still records of
it, but the question was of category xess opened by marleigh.
