On 24.05.2014 22:33, Gregory Pittman wrote: > 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
Thank you Greg, that was really helpful. I had to play for a while to figure that for an already existing document, I could only change by document setup not by general setup, but whatever, Scribus once again does more than is obvious at first glance! More than the new absolute limits (1% to 3200%), I appreciate the ability to reduce my zoom-steps, that will help even with everyday documents. Martin
