.xls mutilates chart size
Submitted by John Denker
Link to original bug (#765156)
Description
Created attachment 326168 demostrate .xls chart failure
See the attached .gnumeric file. Desired behavior: chart is of size 600 x 300. . Then ssconvert graph-fail2.gnumeric graph-fail2.xls Open the .xls file. Observe chart size 722 x 4344. Not good.
I conjecture this is an import issue rather than an export issue, since openoffice can read the .xls file; the result is not pretty but it's not nearly so bad.
The same symptoms were observed using 1.12.22 as distributed by ubuntu. However, this report is based on the latest version, freshly compiled from a fresh git-pull:
commit 1a58d236 Author: Morten Welinder terra@gnome.org Date: Fri Apr 1 19:38:01 2016 -0400
gnumeric version '1.12.29' datadir := '/usr/local/share/gnumeric/1.12.29' libdir := '/usr/local/lib/gnumeric/1.12.29'
uname -a Linux asclepias 3.18.0+ #4 SMP Mon Jul 6 15:51:42 MST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lsb_release LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-3.0-amd64:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-amd64:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-amd64:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-amd64:cxx-4.0-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-3.1-amd64:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-amd64:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-amd64:desktop-4.0-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-amd64:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.1-amd64:graphics-4.1-noarch:languages-3.2-amd64:languages-3.2-noarch:languages-4.0-amd64:languages-4.0-noarch:languages-4.1-amd64:languages-4.1-noarch:multimedia-3.2-amd64:multimedia-3.2-noarch:multimedia-4.0-amd64:multimedia-4.0-noarch:multimedia-4.1-amd64:multimedia-4.1-noarch:printing-3.2-amd64:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch:qt4-3.1-amd64:qt4-3.1-noarch:security-4.0-amd64:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-amd64:security-4.1-noarch
Attachment 326168, "demostrate .xls chart failure":
graph-fail2.gnumeric
Version: 1.12.x