https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162101
--- Comment #6 from cson...@halmai.hu --- I think this would be a very useful addition to many programs, not just LO. I am thinking of - CAD tools (complex drawings with many details), - database designer (hundreds of tables with many fields and foreign key connections) - video editor with many frames - ... Everywhere where you want to see the big picture and the individual details at the same time, without adjusting the zoom level several times per minute. @Heiko: imagine a monitor with 1920x1080 pixel and a text in Calc with 1920 characters. If you zoom out to see everything then every character is represented by 1 pixel. The OS magnifier has no info about the content, just the pixels, therefore, it magnifies N pixel to N large grey squares. An app-specific magnifier, however, can ask the app "what is at pixel (0, 3)". The app knows that the pixel is coming from a letter "B", so the magnifier can show the capital B with the appropriate font, color, etc. I would find it very useful to have a combo magnifier icon on the toolbar. Sorry if I use wrong naming, by "combo" I mean a button that has an on/off state and a dropdown as well, for finer adjustments. Similarly to the Underline button, where you can toggle if the selected text needs to be underlined or not, you also can adjust with the dropdown what style of underlining you want to toggle. In case of the magnifier, the options could be x2, x4, x8, x16, x32. For me, a question is the mechanics of the magnifier. I can imagine two possible implementations: - simple: within the circle of the magnifier, use the adjusted zoom uniformly (straight lines remain straight) - realistic: in the very center of the magnifier glass, you see the adjusted zoom and closer to the perimeter you can see a lower zoom factor (straight lines become curves) For me, the more realistic solution seems nicer, even if it is harder to develop. I would love this tool in many applications. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
