On 2015-10-10 10:15:11, Caleb Maclennan wrote: > I'm using Zathura (using the MuPDF plugin) to review various layouts for > printing. It's important to me that I'm looking at things approximately the > same size as they will come out on paper. I realize the difference between > screen pixels and how things look in print will still affect perception, but > to save test prints while I rough out margins and trim sizes I want to be > able to hold up a paper to the screen and have it match the on-screen > canvas. > > Zathura's default zoom level (100%) is anything but actual size for my > particular hardware configuration. In fact it's off by almost ⅓. If I set > the zoom to 133% I get something very close to actual size. How do I make > this the default zoom level? I would like everything else to scale against > that so that 50% is actually half size, etc. Is there a way to calibrate > the settings to my monitors—some sort of scale factor setting perhaps? > > Interestingly, Evince seems to know something about my monitor size because > it scales things exactly right out of the box. 100% turns up on my monitor > as exactly the right paper size (actually it's off by a smidgen, 100.5% is > more like it but it would be close enough). On the other hand Acroread is > off by a mile, but in the opposite direction as Zathura. There, a value of > 87% works out about right—actual-size is actually jumbo scale. > > How does Zathura decide what size to show at all? Is there a way to fix this > so 100% is actually actual-size? Is there a system DPI value that can be set > that will calibrate this?
At the moment zathura isn't considering the DPI value at all and this is causing the symptoms you see. However, libzathura-gtk already considers the DPI value. So once we switch zathura to libzathura-gtk, this should work as expected. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher _______________________________________________ zathura mailing list zathura@lists.pwmt.org https://lists.pwmt.org/mailman/listinfo/zathura
