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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0008826 | Scribus | Usability | public | 2010-02-16 17:24 | 2016-05-03 12:16 |
| Reporter | louisdesjardins | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | n/a | OS | n/a | OS Version | n/a |
| Summary | 0008826: Being able to scale object or group of objects to a desired percentage | ||||
| Description | As summary | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | While it is possible to scale freely any object, it would be useful to be able to scale precisely according to a percentage. For this we need new fields in the "Geometry" tab in the PP > XYZ: "X-Scale", "Y-Scale" and a "chain/unchain" option. The resulting scaled object or group could have its content scaled as well. Or we could make that user-definable. In this case we would add a check box "Scale content". | ||||
| Additional Information | I’ve looked in the bugtracker and was surprised to find out this feature was not put there before! Seems to me a very useful addition. Maybe I missed it? Would be nice now that we’re approaching 1.4 ! | ||||
| Tags | fparser, GSOC potential | ||||
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| related to | 0008828 | new | correctly parse % when doing calculations with measurements | |
| related to | 0012448 | closed | fschmid | Resizing of a Group + Item is not correct |
| related to | 0003423 | confirmed | remaining problems with resizing multiple text boxes | |
| related to | 0001915 | acknowledged | Resizing of groups of object that contains text doesnt resize that well | |
| related to | 0005356 | new | additional ways to set relative text size properties | |
| child of | 0003812 | acknowledged | Metabug: Grouped objects |
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Adding scale as object property is a major changes which would affect the whole code base, so not quite feasible for 1.4. Apply a scale factor without retaining its value in objects (after apply scale the field value would return immediately to 100%) may be possible. |
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Ok. Understand the nuance here. I think that it’s more important to be able to scale to a desired percentage and see the result returning to 100% than not being able to scale. So, I would still go for it. |
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You can do scaling by percentage with the Spinboxes in the Properties Palette. E.g for scaling the width you can enter in the width spinbox the following (assuming the current width is e.g 10): "10 pt * (width * 0.1)" and pressing "Return" (the 0.1 is for 10%). |
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well... franz: not really :-) in the properties palette (assuming a width of 192.25pt) you just write: 192.25 pt *0.1 to have a 10% width and 192.25 pt /0.1 to go from 10% back to 100%. you can also type "width*0.1" and "width/0.1", but it takes longer... i think that this needs some basic arithmetic understanding which can be expected from a professional DTP user (but it should be documented somewhere). for occasional users, resizing with the mouse and editing the measurements in the PP may be enough. personally, i don't see how to do it better with a GUI element p.s.: i will post a separate feature request for correct parsing of the % sign in calculations: 192.25 pt*10% should be the same as 192.25 pt*0.1... |
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I understand that just about anyone can do those simple maths. However, I think that it’s worth giving it further thoughts so we can figure out a nice way to put this into the GUI. A specific field with a percentage would be easier to use, I think! :) |
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not easy to implement but maybe a good way to do it: if you type 10% in a measurement field, it will be scaled to 10% and will show the new width in the current measurement. though, somewhere, we store the previous measurement. if you type 200% you get 200% for the original measurement. if you type 100% you get back to the original value (and the cached value is cleared). if you type in a new measurement which is not in % (like 10cm) the measurement is set to the new value and you lose the "reference" value (width: 10cm, 10%, 20cm, 10%, 20%, the result is a 4cm width, but 100% is currently 20cm) i think that this may be a nice task for a GSOC... or is it too easy and too much tedious work? |
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I don't think this would be useful in comparison to other options for GSoC. |
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related: 0008828 |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2010-02-16 17:24 | louisdesjardins | New Issue | |
| 2010-02-16 18:13 | jghali | Note Added: 0023303 | |
| 2010-02-16 19:16 | louisdesjardins | Note Added: 0023304 | |
| 2010-02-16 22:24 | fschmid | Note Added: 0023310 | |
| 2010-02-17 07:47 | ale | Note Added: 0023313 | |
| 2010-02-18 15:37 | louisdesjardins | Note Added: 0023330 | |
| 2010-02-19 12:17 | ale | Note Added: 0023341 | |
| 2010-02-19 12:19 | cbradney | Note Added: 0023342 | |
| 2014-09-18 21:47 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0012448 |
| 2014-09-18 21:47 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0003423 |
| 2014-09-18 21:47 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0001915 |
| 2014-09-18 21:48 | Kunda | Relationship added | child of 0003812 |
| 2016-04-21 02:38 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0008828 |
| 2016-04-21 02:38 | Kunda | Note Added: 0040358 | |
| 2016-04-21 02:39 | Kunda | Tag Attached: fparser | |
| 2016-04-21 02:40 | Kunda | Tag Attached: GSOC potential | |
| 2016-05-03 12:16 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0005356 |
