Re: Zoom.

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 22 Aug 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Lars Clausen wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:22:56 -0500
>> From: Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu>
>> Reply-To: dia-list@gnome.org
>> To: dia-list@gnome.org
>> Subject: Re: Zoom.
>>
>> On 22 Aug 2003, Igor Hjelmstrom Vinhas Ribeiro wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I am using DIA to make large diagrams. Because of this, I must ask: why
>>> the 400% limit in the zoom tool?
>
> Lots of programs seem to go to 1600 %
> dont know why that number in particular.
>
> Some of the Zoom levels are quite odd, not round numbers that you might
> expect.

They're round numbers on a log scale.  

> We probably need to cut the Zoom Menu down to maybe 10 presets, including
> a few "Zoom to fit Something" but also include Zoom... a dialog where
> users can specify as precise an arbitrary Zoom Level as the code will
> allow.

I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a little entrybox in the lower
left corner of each diagram where you can enter the zoom level.  What use
dialog? 

-Lars

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