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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0001436Scribus-public2005-06-26 13:11
ReporterNiels Assigned Toringerc 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionwon't fix 
Product Version1.2 
Summary0001436: Work with pixels
DescriptionScribus can export to an image. That's really great, but not very usable unless everything can be measured in pixels -- page size, all coordinates, font sizes.
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cbradney

2004-12-22 17:05

administrator   ~0003204

How many pixels would you like in your inch?

Niels

2004-12-22 17:16

reporter   ~0003205

I apologize if I've reported something silly, or in the wrong way. I'm not a professional typesetter nor have I used Scribus for more than a few hours.

But this is how I see it: I want to make a nice document. I want it as an image only, and Scribus provides such an option, which is great! But I want the image to be exactly 200x100 pixels (or whatever) with letters 8 pixels high and a 5 px margin. I don't need any inches, dpi, points or picas, just pixels.

I've tried making the document on a standard A4 page and then adjusting the dpi in the save image dialog to about 120 until I'd reached my desired image size. But that made the text barely readable, as if it had been rendered and then scaled.

Maybe exporting to an image in this way isn't an important feature for Scribus, I don't know. I just thought I'd report my point of view.

Thank you for Scribus!

cbradney

2004-12-22 18:40

administrator   ~0003206

Sorry, its not wrong, but hard to define, and hard to get right given the varying DPIs you may be subjected to on your screen, etc. We can make up some pixels per inch option in a document where some reasonable values can be chosen I suppose.

However, adding a new unit of measurement at all, needs to be considered, and I think I've almost done this work in the 1.3 codebase.

ringerc

2005-06-26 08:15

reporter   ~0005137

Niels, the issue here is that the number of pixels per unit of physical distance (eg centimetre) varies depending on the output device. My screen has a different number of pixels for 1 cm than yours does (mine is 90x90 dpi usually, but goes up to 120x120). My printer has a different DPI to my screen too - 300x300 or 600x600 depending on how I configure it. A 300x300 pixel image comes out a bit above 3 inches wide displayed on my screen, but either 1 inch or 1/2 inch wide on my printer.

Scribus, as a desktop publishing tool, is all about the physical size of things. Many of the objects you manipulate in Scribus don't even have anything to do with pixels until sent to a given output.

I'm not sure adding a pixels measurement is therefore practical. We could support pixels-at-some-given-dpi, but not "pixels" in general.

ringerc

2005-06-26 08:21

reporter   ~0005138

I don't think this is practical to do in the form described here. Having user defined measurements could let you make a measurement for pixels at your chosen DPI, but frankly that's a pretty weird use case for a desktop publishing app.

I think you might be better off checking out Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/ . It's a vector drawing program that may fit your needs much better, especially combined with the GIMP - http://www.gimp.org .

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2004-12-22 16:41 Niels New Issue
2004-12-22 17:05 cbradney Note Added: 0003204
2004-12-22 17:16 Niels Note Added: 0003205
2004-12-22 18:40 cbradney Note Added: 0003206
2005-06-26 08:15 ringerc Note Added: 0005137
2005-06-26 08:16 ringerc Status new => acknowledged
2005-06-26 08:21 ringerc Status acknowledged => resolved
2005-06-26 08:21 ringerc Resolution open => won't fix
2005-06-26 08:21 ringerc Assigned To => ringerc
2005-06-26 08:21 ringerc Note Added: 0005138
2005-06-26 13:11 cbradney Status resolved => closed