This is not so much a bug as an design omission. Whilst the Libre Office Drawing fulfills the basic needs for creating simple drawings and sketches, it fails to have a drawing scale feature. The same is true of Libre CAD. The very first time I tried to draw a small detail I was frustrated because my object was only 2 x 3 inches in section and 4 inches long. In order to have a reasonable size representation I had to mentally create a 2:1 scale as I went along. There needs to be a drawing scale feature at the file level to provide this very basic need. John Spencer
What about Tools > Options > LibreOffice Draw > General > Drawing scale :)? But I think a faster access is desirable (like in the bottom status/toolbar). Therefore lets change this bug to an enhancement request? Kind regards, Joren
On 2013-07-02 2:25 AM, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote: > Jorendc <mailto:joren.libreoffice@telenet.be> changed bug 66470 > <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66470> > What Removed Added > Hardware x86-64 (AMD64) All > OS Windows (All) All > Status UNCONFIRMED NEW > Severity normal enhancement > QA Contact joren.libreoffice@telenet.be > See Also https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65765, > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59068 > Summary FILEOPEN FILEOPEN: easier access to scale drawings > Component Drawing UI > Ever confirmed 1 > > *Comment # 1 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66470#c1> > on bug 66470 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66470> from > Jorendc <mailto:joren.libreoffice@telenet.be> * > What about Tools > Options > LibreOffice Draw > General > Drawing scale :)? > > But I think a faster access is desirable (like in the bottom status/toolbar). > Therefore lets change this bug to an enhancement request? > > Kind regards, > Joren > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > You are receiving this mail because: > > * You reported the bug. > Thanks for your response. My apologies for raising a non issue. However, I do concur that the route to the solution is obscure and I am not sure I would ever have found it. I am more used to Visio, am looking for a replacement and find Libre Draw/CAD similarly functional. There, the scale function is reached very quickly via the Page Set Up in the File menu. I do agree that an enhancement is appropriate, since the drawing scale is usually the first parameter that is determined after the drawing page is created. Best regards John
Adding needsUXEval to discuss how this can be resolved or if anyhow.
We discussed this in the design meeting and having feedback in the statusbar with quick access to the options is welcome. Will look into it myself.
The status bar is already very full in Draw. Therefore I would not add an additional tool there. Scaling is in settings.xml, items ScaleDenominator and ScaleNumerator. So it is stored in file, but no ODF feature. In the long term, I would like to have a dedicated dialog for document specific settings, reachable without Tools > Options. But for now I can think of adding a part in the page properties dialog in Draw. Currently Draw can use only exact one page style and scaling is usually chosen at the same time when setting page size, the place there would be obvious. Alternatively a submenu-list in menu Page, which lists all the predefined scale ratios.
Created attachment 170257 [details] Screenshot of statusbar The field ".uno;ModificationStatus" is much too wide. The field ".uno:Size" is too small. See screenshots.
Created attachment 170258 [details] Screenshot 2 of status bar
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/951b243f10a7c184e635ce1d84f69683d8e7abde Resolves tdf#66470 - Scaling value in statusbar It will be available in 7.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Verified as fixed in: Version: 7.2.0.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 614be4f5c67816389257027dc5e56c801a547089 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded