[scribus] Really big 'pages'.

[Gregory Pittman]

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