Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 75284
Max. Drawing Area is small - much bigger than 80x80cm required.
Last modified: 2007-03-12 09:11:46 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 :)
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
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 :)
Duplicate, thanks for your help. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 4219 ***
Closed.