[18399] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.13: xess - spreadsheet printing issue on multiple sheets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Oct 12 13:01:24 2000
Message-Id: <200010121701.NAA26039@dit.mit.edu>
To: marleigh@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[18388] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:01:20 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>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.
Hi,
I heard back from AIS about this- here is what they say:
> I've confirmed the findings - this was a limitation in the v4.1
>stream that there was effectively a single range size being printed for
>multiple worksheets. The printing mechanism has been somewhat reworked and
>I do not observe this problem in v5.0. To my knowledge there is not an
>effective workaround in v4.1 apart from printing sheets individually from
>either selection or print range, which I acknowledge isn't efficient enough
>to be useful in most cases.
So that's about it.. we'll have to wait for 5.0 which is due within a few
months. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Alex
