On Thu, 2005-07-04 at 23:03 +1000, Wayne Schuller wrote:
I was interested to see that the "fit-to" printing option defaults to 0, which I thought was really strange. Reading the code I see 0 = normal 100% scaling. This is not really intuitive, and I'm not sure why you would ever choose 0. Having "0" as the default is redundant because the scale radio button is already defaulted to "Adjust to 100%" - if you click the "fit to" radio button then you must definitely want something other than 100% scaling.
You would be correct if there were a single 0, but the dialog has separate numbers for pages wide and pages tall. So 1 page wide and 0 pages tall just means reduce the width so that we only use one page wide but print several pages for the height of the document. This is my preferred version and I would love that it to default to that but other users will have other preferences. Having said that it is of course trivial to change the default for all your new documents. Set you preferred version, check `save as default setting' and click okay.
The old gnumeric (with this bit I helped implement!), used to default to 1, which I thought was the majority use case for "fit to", someone wants to make their document fit on 1 page exactly. Obviously they can change it to something higher, but I'm not sure why you would want to set it to 0.
because normally you just don't want to have the most right column slip onto another page.
In the original glade file I think there was a bug (my mistake!) that let you set the spin to zero. Browsing cvs on the web I see that Morten fixed this bug (good!), but then reverted it and allowed the "0=100%" usage case. I wonder why you did this rather than just fix the glade spin widget minimum? I'm guessing, Morten, that you did it because it is what excel did, or because the bug existed we had to maintain the "0" option for backwards compatibility with old gnumeric files? Is it possible to simply not allow "0" in the spin button and make 1 the minimum?
see above
If not, would you be willing to accept a patch that at least makes the default "1"?[1] I think this is the most usable default. For my use at least, 99% of the time I click on the "fit to" radio button because I want to make my document fit on one printed page exactly. This feels like a small usability regression compared to the old gnumeric.
feel free to change your default settings. I don't think I have any spreadsheet fies that could be printed and read on a single page. Andreas -- Andreas J. Guelzow Taliesin Software, Shelties, Pyr Sheps and Shetland Sheep
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