Debian Bug report logs - #441716
page setup dialog limits scaling to 1000%

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Yann Dirson <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: iceweasel: page setup dialog limits scaling to 500%

Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:00:59 +0200

Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.3-1
Severity: wishlist

It is perfectly legitimate to allow people to scale a small amount of
text on a paper.  In my case, I have a small number of kanjis that I
would print as large as possible - 1000% would be enough for this
particular need, but it could be useful to allow the user to take full
advantage of the size of the integer used to store that value ?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (90, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.1-smp (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=french (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils             2.23.1           Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig              2.4.2-1.2        generic font configuration library
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.18.0-2         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-1+b1       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.10-1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1          2.4.2-1.2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2.1-4        GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.0-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.10.13-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62               6b-13            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmyspell3c2           1:3.1-18         MySpell spellchecking library
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.18.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-2   PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6              4.2.1-4          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxft2                 2.1.12-2         FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxp6                  1:1.0.0.xsf1-1   X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.2-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.5-3        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  psmisc                  22.5-1           Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

iceweasel recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mike Hommey <[email protected]>

To: Yann Dirson <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#441716: iceweasel: page setup dialog limits scaling to 500%

Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:40:11 +0100

Hi,

Sorry for the late answer.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:00:59PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 2.0.0.3-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> It is perfectly legitimate to allow people to scale a small amount of
> text on a paper.  In my case, I have a small number of kanjis that I
> would print as large as possible - 1000% would be enough for this
> particular need, but it could be useful to allow the user to take full
> advantage of the size of the integer used to store that value ?

1000 is the maximum you can now get in version 3.x. Would you agree this
is enough ?

Mike

Message #17 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Yann Dirson <[email protected]>

To: Mike Hommey <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#441716: iceweasel: page setup dialog limits scaling to 500%

Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:11:03 +0100

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:40:11AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the late answer.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:00:59PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 2.0.0.3-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > It is perfectly legitimate to allow people to scale a small amount of
> > text on a paper.  In my case, I have a small number of kanjis that I
> > would print as large as possible - 1000% would be enough for this
> > particular need, but it could be useful to allow the user to take full
> > advantage of the size of the integer used to store that value ?
> 
> 1000 is the maximum you can now get in version 3.x. Would you agree this
> is enough ?

Well, it would have been OK for that particular use, but is it really
useful at all to have a limit (leaving aside the fact that the
GtkSpinbox requires an upper limit when given a lower one, which is
IMHO a bug in its own right) ?

I mean, there will surely be someone one day with a need for a
(slightly ?)  larger scale factor... is there a real reason to forbid
it ?

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