Caleb Maclennan
2015-10-10 07:15:11 UTC
I'm using Zathura (using the MuPDF plugin) to review various layouts for
printing. It's important to me that I'm looking at things approximately
the same size as they will come out on paper. I realize the difference
between screen pixels and how things look in print will still affect
perception, but to save test prints while I rough out margins and trim
sizes I want to be able to hold up a paper to the screen and have it
match the on-screen canvas.
Zathura's default zoom level (100%) is anything but actual size for my
particular hardware configuration. In fact it's off by almost â . If I
set the zoom to 133% I get something very close to actual size. How do
I make this the default zoom level? I would like everything else to
scale against that so that 50% is actually half size, etc. Is there a
way to calibrate the settings to my monitorsâsome sort of scale factor
setting perhaps?
Interestingly, Evince seems to know something about my monitor size
because it scales things exactly right out of the box. 100% turns up on
my monitor as exactly the right paper size (actually it's off by a
smidgen, 100.5% is more like it but it would be close enough). On the
other hand Acroread is off by a mile, but in the opposite direction as
Zathura. There, a value of 87% works out about rightâactual-size is
actually jumbo scale.
How does Zathura decide what size to show at all? Is there a way to fix
this so 100% is actually actual-size? Is there a system DPI value that
can be set that will calibrate this?
Thanks for any pointers.
Caleb
P.S. I originally posted a question about this to the Unix & Linux Stack
Exchange site before finding this list. Any solutions I hear from here
I'll post back to there as a self-answer, but if anybody wanted to post
a solution directly⊠http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/235170/1925
printing. It's important to me that I'm looking at things approximately
the same size as they will come out on paper. I realize the difference
between screen pixels and how things look in print will still affect
perception, but to save test prints while I rough out margins and trim
sizes I want to be able to hold up a paper to the screen and have it
match the on-screen canvas.
Zathura's default zoom level (100%) is anything but actual size for my
particular hardware configuration. In fact it's off by almost â . If I
set the zoom to 133% I get something very close to actual size. How do
I make this the default zoom level? I would like everything else to
scale against that so that 50% is actually half size, etc. Is there a
way to calibrate the settings to my monitorsâsome sort of scale factor
setting perhaps?
Interestingly, Evince seems to know something about my monitor size
because it scales things exactly right out of the box. 100% turns up on
my monitor as exactly the right paper size (actually it's off by a
smidgen, 100.5% is more like it but it would be close enough). On the
other hand Acroread is off by a mile, but in the opposite direction as
Zathura. There, a value of 87% works out about rightâactual-size is
actually jumbo scale.
How does Zathura decide what size to show at all? Is there a way to fix
this so 100% is actually actual-size? Is there a system DPI value that
can be set that will calibrate this?
Thanks for any pointers.
Caleb
P.S. I originally posted a question about this to the Unix & Linux Stack
Exchange site before finding this list. Any solutions I hear from here
I'll post back to there as a self-answer, but if anybody wanted to post
a solution directly⊠http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/235170/1925