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

On 9/5/2011 1:26 PM, Christoph Noack wrote:
> 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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If anyone can post a link to his profile, so I can see the docs, I would
be grateful, since I have no idea of how to navigate the wiki to find it.

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