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

[Owen]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:22:54 +0200
Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk at spth.de> 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? 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 am intrigued as to why you would want to do this. I suspect that if
it were set automatically, there would be those who would prefer to set
it manually.

Also, my 1280x1024 physical screen size could well be different to the
physical size of the next monitor with that resolution.

You are, after all, just laying out, and any precision placement would
be done under a zoom. 

Horses for courses I guess


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Owen