129025 - [UX] Print Preview: Add UI to change page zoom (as distinct from content scaling)

Status: NEW

(Core :: Print Preview, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020304

Print Preview: Need UI (Button) to select Zoom Level of display

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  | 75  |\/|    <-- Either enter a zoom level, or select from dropdown list
--------------

The dropdown list should include:

+------------+
| Page Width |
| Full Page  |
|   50%      |
|   75%      |
|  100%      |
|  150%      |
|  200%      |
+------------+

Alternative solution: Switching to Landscape should automatically re-zoom the
view to fit page-width into the screen-width.

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

*** Bug 129026 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

Do you mean Zoom where we just maginify what is there or scale? Where we
actually relay out the page. Are suggesting we change the scaling UI to a
combobox (this has been asked for)?

Comment 3

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

nsbeta1-

Comment 4

[Peter Lairo]

I'm not talking about *scaling* the fontsizes within the page; I am talking
about *zooming* the page itself relative to the screen (i.e., how close the
user's nose is to the screen ;) ). I'm talking about the kind of zooming there
is in WordPerfect or Excel.

OT: You probably should change the *Scaling* UI also.

----------------------------------------------------------------
 Scale Contents  | 100% |\/|      Zoom View  | Full Page |\/|   
----------------------------------------------------------------

Comment 5

[Webmaster33]

Yes, I aggree with Comment #4.
Scaling is fine in v1.1a, but Zooming feature also needed!

Comment 6

[Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley]

Still around on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050130
Firefox/1.0+ .  This bug has been around for 3 years and is really annoying.  

Could we also have the option on the menu of "2 full pages", "4 full pages" and
"6 full pages" per screen per screen.

As an example this is portrait with "2 full pages" set:

+----------------------------+
| +----------+ +----------+  |
| |          | |          |  |
| |          | |          |  |
| |          | |          |  |
| |          | |          |  |
| |          | |          |  |
| |          | |          |  |
| +----------+ +----------+  |
+----------------------------+

Landscape would have one page on top and one on the bottom.

"4 full pages" would quarter the screen and "6" would have 3 on top and 3 on
bottom for portrait and 3 on left and 3 on right for landscape.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Some scaling factors have been delivered, but these two have not:
Page Width
Full Page

On thing missing is IE style zoom buttons

(In reply to comment #6)
Joe, you need to file a new bug for the following - I don't see it anywhere
(many modern printer drivers provide this capability - so delivery within this
product is questionable) 

> option ...of "2 full pages", "4 full pages" and
> "6 full pages" per screen per screen.
> 
> As an example this is portrait with "2 full pages" set:
> 
> +----------------------------+
> | +----------+ +----------+  |
> | |          | |          |  |
> | |          | |          |  |
> | |          | |          |  |
> | |          | |          |  |
> | |          | |          |  |
> | |          | |          |  |
> | +----------+ +----------+  |
> +----------------------------+