Open Options->Draw->General->Scale, and press Help button. On https://help.libreoffice.org/25.2/en-GB/text/shared/optionen/01070500.html?DbPAR=IMPRESS, there's no mention of Scale group (including a Drawing scale drop-down). The control (also duplicated on Draw's status bar, since 7.2, when Heiko fixed bug 66470) allows to use scaled measurements for objects' sizes and positions, so that it's possible to use "actual" measurements, like "10000" for 10-meter object, which would still fit into A4 with appropriate scale (say, 1:100).
Created attachment 199093 [details] screenshot This option is not available in Version: 25.2.0.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 62af784cc06624122f17ee71c7cf13d906cbaed0 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
(In reply to BogdanB from comment #1) > This option is not available in It is available in *Draw*.
Confirm this. https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-GB/text/shared/optionen/01070500.html?DbPAR=IMPRESS
The issue rises because the option General page UI file is used by both DRAW and IMPRESS. Then when F1/HELP is pressed, the module sent in the URL is IMPRESS, which does not have the Scale param and the content is hidden. Solution is to turn switch to static. Taking
Olivier Hallot committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/07e8db4df115a5662b5e28831cbc7049cd50c217 tdf#165141 - Fix Draw - Scale Help page