Gnumeric

Gnumeric
A screenshot of Gnumeric 1.12.9 running under Ubuntu MATE
Original author	Miguel de Icaza
Developer	The GNOME Project
Initial release	31 December 2001 (2001-12-31)
Preview release	None [±]
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Written in	C
Engine
Operating system	Unix-like
Platform	GTK 3
Type	Spreadsheet
License	GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only
Website	gnumeric.org

Gnumeric is a spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME Free Software Desktop Project. Gnumeric version 1.0 was released on 31 December 2001. Gnumeric is distributed as free software under the GNU General Public License; it is intended to replace proprietary spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel. Gnumeric was created and developed by Miguel de Icaza, but he has since moved on to other projects. The maintainer as of 2002 was Jody Goldberg.

Features

Gnumeric has the ability to import and export data in several file formats, including CSV, Microsoft Excel (write support for the more recent .xlsx format is incomplete), Microsoft Works spreadsheets (.wks), HTML, LaTeX, Lotus 1-2-3, OpenDocument and Quattro Pro; its native format is the Gnumeric file format (.gnm or .gnumeric), an XML file compressed with gzip. It includes all of the spreadsheet functions of the North American edition of Microsoft Excel and many functions unique to Gnumeric. Pivot tables and Visual Basic for Applications macros are not yet supported.

Gnumeric's accuracy has helped it to establish a niche for statistical analysis and other scientific tasks. For improving the accuracy of Gnumeric, the developers are cooperating with the R Project.

Gnumeric has an interface for the creation and editing of graphs different from other spreadsheet software. For editing a graph, Gnumeric displays a window where all the elements of the graph are listed. Other spreadsheet programs typically require the user to select the individual elements of the graph in the graph itself in order to edit them.

Dependencies

• glib-2.0 ≥ 2.40.0
  • gobject-2.0 ≥ 2.40.0
  • gmodule-2.0 ≥ 2.40.0
  • gio-2.0 ≥ 2.40.0
• gtk+-3.0 ≥ 3.8.7
  • gdk-pixbuf-2.0 ≥ 2.22.0
• pango ≥ 1.24.0
• cairo ≥ 1.10.0
  • pangocairo ≥ 1.24.0
  • cairo-ps ≥ 1.10.0
  • cairo-pdf ≥ 1.10.0
  • cairo-svg ≥ 1.10.0
• libgsf-1 ≥ 1.14.24 (aka G Structured File Library)
• libxml-2.0 ≥ 2.4.12
• libxslt (an XSLT processor extending libxml2)

See also

• EditGrid – was an on-line spreadsheet which used Gnumeric as its back-end
• List of open source spreadsheet software
• Comparison of spreadsheet software

External links

• Official website
• Gnumeric XML File Format
• Open Mag interviews Jody Goldberg on Gnumeric. Nancy Cohen, 17 February 2004; archived 2012
• Linux Productivity Magazine Volume 2 Issue 6, June 2003: full issue on Introduction to Gnumeric