limitations of abiword's zoom can make it impossible to zoom to near "actual size"

[Robert Persson]

I often work on a 17" monitor set to 1280x960 resolution. At this resolution it is impossible to get abiword to zoom appropriately. A letter size page at "actual size" in fact displays with a width just about equal to the diameter of a CD or DVD. None of the other zoom options bring me any closer to the true paper size.

What is needed is for abiword to be aware of the true screen dimensions and/or for it to allow more fine-grained zoom (e.g. to 150%) or arbitrary zoom, as openoffice does.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

Hi Robert,

Do you mean the Abiword at "actual size" doesn't show the same size as if you put a page up to your monitor?

Due to the various difficulties with measuring actual size of pixels, I doubt you'll be able to convince the Abiword developers to make this work well. However, http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3547 seems to address your problem.

[Robert Persson (ireneshusband)]

Sorry Simon. it looks like I've had a bit of a brainfart. There does appear to be a zoom to arbitrary size option after all. I think I didn't notice it because it was greyed out until I checked the appropriate box. Perhaps a human interface issue, albeit a minor one.

Of course correctly identifying the screen resolution would be nice, but otherwise you can probably mark this one as invalid or fixed or whatever you do in launchpad.