> ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: Re: [Scribus] Time to defend your use of libPDF > From: Lars Behrens <Lars.Behrens at pi.uka.de> > To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > Date: 26-01-2006 9:35 > > > on Thursday 26 January 2006 00:24 Craig Bradney wrote: > > > > I am not sure if this has something in common but for me Scribus > > > always was screwing mm dimensions... > > > > Maybe 1.2.x. 1.3.x should not be. I set the pages up with the ISO > > definition, and I centralised all the units conversion into one > > place. You will always get rounding errors at some point given the > > factors are not nice ratios, but you shouldnt really be with page > > sizes thats for sure. > > Hmm, here (1.3.2 on Slackware 10.2), when I click on "File" > "New" and > just accept the preselected A4, the dimensions in the greyed out field > show 209.903 mm and 297.039 mm. When I change the size in the dropdown > list to something else and then back to A4, then the correct dimensions > of 210.000 mm and 297 mmm are set.
209.903 and 297.039 were the 1.2 settings for A4, which is what I fixed. Reset your default document size in Edit->Preferences and itll be ok. > And really: There is a slight difference when I export the two versions: > The first one is shown as 209.9 x 297 in Acrobat Reader and the other > one as 210 x 297. Don't know whether that is within the rounding > tolerance and I even don't know how (or with which method) to measure > the whole thing correctly at all. I can't remember the URL but there is a certain tolerance allowed by the ISO standard for A* and even the old settings I think fitted well within that. > > Also, I don't want to be nitpicking, just wanted to inform you about the > fact. Its ok :) If theres an issue that should be fixed, we want to know about it. Craig
