Re: [libreoffice-design] writer pages are driving me crazy

Hi all!

Sorry for commenting a bit late, but my vacation just ended ... so I'm
back and crawling through my mails (during the last days).

Am Montag, den 29.08.2011, 07:23 -0700 schrieb Vamsi Kodali:
> I agree with Andrew. I have faced this 'issue' too. In my case, this 
> happens when I am moving back and forth between my laptop and desktop. 
> My desktop has a 24 inch monitor and when I am working on a document, I 
> zoom in to about 150% there. When I want to work on the same document on 
> my laptop that has a samller screen, LibO remembers (rightfully so) that 
> the zoom level for the document is 150% but left aligns the page showing 
> empty margins while center aligning the page would still be able to 
> display the contents properly.
>
> I hope someone could shed light on this behavior - is this an expected 
> one? a designed feature, or a bug that needs fixing?

Well, personally I think that is another issue - there are some similar
problems that drive people drive nuts with regard to multi-page views.

Andrew, there may be issues with the zoom slider. If done properly,
there could even be some difference between "setting the zoom via the
slider" (limiting the default zoom level) and "setting it via number
entry" (providing a larger zoom range).

For those who might work on improvement proposals, here is an
(extensive) list of what we've collected in the OOo UX team. If some
tiny issues could be resolved (e.g. by providing a good description how
it should work), then this would be very helpful:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Zoom_Slider#Design_and_User_Experience_issues

Cheers,
Christoph



> On 08/29/2011 01:39 AM, Andrew Pullins wrote:
> > well I can kinda see how some one could use it but I just wanted to talk
> > about the centering mostly. like I said it is stupid.
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Cedric Bosdonnat<
> > cedric.bosdonnat.ooo@free.fr>  wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 21:37 -0400, Andrew Pullins wrote:
> > > > why does LibreOffice writer even have a 600% zoom. I don't see a reason
> > > to
> > > > have more than 200% to 300% zoom.  I can see it in an art program like
> > > draw,
> > > > GIMP, inkscape but not a word processor. why does this not center, I like
> > > to
> > > > keep it at 145% so that it is the biggest size that it can be and I can
> > > > still see the hole page left to right.
> > > You probably don't need that big a zoom, but at least I do need it when
> > > I'm hacking on some Writer painting code to check that things are
> > > properly aligned and displayed.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cédric Bosdonnat
> > > LibreOffice hacker
> > > http://documentfoundation.org
> > > OOo Eclipse Integration developer
> > > http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr
> > >
> > >
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