Scaling inkview (feature request, patch included)

[Nicolas Brodu]

Hi all,

and thanks for your collective efforts on this fantastic project.

I recently needed to add a scale option to Inkview, so as to change the default window size. For example, for a SVG file with units expressed in mm, the default window is way too small when computed at 90dpi with a screen resolution much larger. Other use cases can be when the SVG viewport, in pixels, is too large to fit on screen. A scale option addresses both problems, so I implemented it.

Attached is the patch that adds the scale option. It's very small, but quite useful.

Best,
Nicolas

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Thanks for your patch!

We recently dropped getopt in our development version, and thus your modification had to be adapted. The attached patch was created and tested on Xubuntu 15.10 with rev. 14674. I also added a minimal help documentation for the new option.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

A bit too late for 0.92, linking to 0.93.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Adding the inkscape-docs project (inkview man page needs to be updated).

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Implemented in
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/15690.1.14

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

There was still the man page update missing. The option that needed to be added to
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/blob/master/man/inkview.pod.in
is:

short_name('s');
long_name("scale");
set_arg_description(N_("NUM"));
set_description(N_("Scale image by factor NUM"));

See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/207

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

@Eduard: Do you think anyone would care about Inkview man page translations?...

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Yes, thought about it, too...
In principle it should not be too hard to add - if we have interested translators I don't see a reason why not to do translate it.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Created a report, then we can't forget to do it when we want to.

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Documentation update committed in
  https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commit/ca0cab45e47190e12dccd50d3551bfbcb71f1863