[scribus] Why to I have to set the screen size in Scribus?

[John Beardmore]

Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:

> I just noticed that sizes were not correct in Scribus by default (when I
> held a ruler to the screen it didn't match with the Scribus one).
> I found the monitor configuration option where I can set the DPI to
> correct this and did so.
> Why doesn't Scribus do this automatically?

I'm only guessing wildly, but one obvious reason may be that there isn't 
a readily available cross platform way to do it ?

Remember Scribus isn't a windows app -  more of a good linux app that 
just happens to run under windows by the good grace of Qt ?

And then there's the killer problem. Windows, and I guess X11, can't 
tell how big a monitor you happen to have plugged in. Or at least I 
assume they can't through generic VGA mechanisms, especially if you 
happen to route your VGA through KVM switches to monitors of different 
sizes like I do. I could be 17" or 19" depending what else is going on.


> It should just use the value
> it gets from the Window system (like other applications, e.g. gimp do)
> by default, so I don't have to configure this for every application
> individually.

I seem to remember getting a value for that out of a GDI device context 
for something in years gone by, but it was never any use to man or beast 
for absolute sizing.


Cheers, J/.
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