Issue 75284

Summary:	Max. Drawing Area is small - much bigger than 80x80cm required.
Product:	Draw	Reporter:	terablade2001 <terablade2001>
Component:	viewing	Assignee:	wolframgarten
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	issues@graphics <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	ace_dent, issues
Version:	OOo 2.1	Keywords:	oooqa
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
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Description terablade2001 2007-03-11 11:40:56 UTC

OO Draw is a very good program that I use a lot to create schematics.. Recently
I used to create a web-site tree structure. The problem that I had was that the
maximum drawing area was less tan 80x80cm.

Making such a work: web-site tree stucture, or using an .ODG file to store there
many schematics, requires much more space of 80x80cm drawing area. You can tell
that I can scale down my vector-graphics, but... there are problems like the
texts are not vector ones, and I cant scale them down, unless I convert them to
other formats (metafiles) - which i dont want, cause I loose some information etc..

It would be much convenient to increase the maximum drawing area to more than
80x80cm.. 256x256cm would be enough I guess (or more if there are no mem
problems). Noting that I never will print such files (only if I scale down the
output), but I need that much of canvas size in order to place there many
different vector-graphics etc. To be able to use such files, like pools of
graphics. I believe its not hard to do that change, and I hope you do it in next
versions :)

Thank you :)

Comment 1 ace_dent 2007-03-11 20:17:27 UTC

Tested with OOo 2.0.4.
Right click in drawing area > Page > Page Setup... 
Enter user format. Type 256cm for height and width. It seems that the max.
dimension for a drawing is actually 119cm. To my mind this seems more than
adequate and I guess is derived from the largest dimension of A0 (118.9cm).
Larger sizes cannot be printed (easily) and would suggest it is a rare usage
case, where a diagram could not be split over 2 sheets of A0 (or down scaled).

Andrew

Comment 2 terablade2001 2007-03-12 08:08:14 UTC

Yes.. Its 119x119cm.. Still, as you said its a rare usage case that still may be
happen. And yes, it seems that is adequate for my work (80x80cm wasnt).. Still,
I stay with the impression that "as larger as better". At final I use to split
the diagrams with hyperlinks, to continue them to different pages (diagram
subcomponents), although a 256x256 cm space would have all my diagram to one!

But then as I am thinking now it would be more difficult to use it -
moving/zooming (which are new features I'd like OODraw to have, but I will refer
them someother day). You may do as you like - maybe in much future versions! :)
Sorry for my error :)

Comment 3 wolframgarten 2007-03-12 09:11:19 UTC

Duplicate, thanks for your help.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 4219 ***

Comment 4 wolframgarten 2007-03-12 09:11:46 UTC

Closed.