On 05/24/2014 03:34 PM, ZASKE Martin wrote: > 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. > > For extremes like this, it's worth looking at Preferences. One place is Tools > Zoom, to adjust min, max and stepping. The other is Display, where you can change the starting point of the size of a page display.
Greg
