On 23.05.2014 19:52, John Beardmore wrote: > I'm making a couple of big banners under 1.4.4svn. The size is 2000mm > tall, 800mm wide, with 150mm bleed at the bottom. > > I can set up a document with these dimensions as a custom page size, but > if I 'Fit to height' it doesn't show quite all the page. > > If I try to zoom out to see an overview it won't. Is this a known problem ? > > > Cheers, J/.
Hi J., thank you for pointing this out. I tried your layout on Version 1.4.3 (Windows) and the smallest zoom I can get is 10% (status bar, bottom left, zoom buttons or fit to hight). So fit to hight is not possible on my Scribus either. I did a quick search on "zoom" in the bug tracker and there are some issues, but to me it seems that nobody ever shouted for a zoom below 10%. I have done some few banners in the last three years which get printed even bigger than 2000mm, and I believe a tool like Adobe Reader does not mind showing even bigger stuff, at least I remember having seen my design before I took the order to the shop. (Some landscape PR-banners I created really big, I believe with Inkscape, and some were just blown-up pages from our magazine.) So I would second a "feature request" for a future Scribus version to support really big formats - and be able to show them on a screen. For us this would fall into a priority "nice to have" but not very urgent. I cannot envisage us, ever needing (or rather having money for) banners larger than 10 meters; 3 to 4 meters more normal. Are the zoom limits fundamentally engrained in the code, or are those parameters which could be "re-programmed" rather easily? What would other users need? Anybody need "extreme zooming" the other way, i.e. beyond 3200%. Sometimes I am trying to "hide" tiny things inside documents; and rarely I am searching for some mistaken mini-frame (when I slipped off the mouse button), but so far no real need for mega-zoom-in. fwiw, Martin -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
