[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#534632: Bug#534632: Feature: scale big graphics in the editor

[Sven Hoexter]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:24:56AM +0200, Alex Dănilă wrote:

Hi Alex,

> When inserting big graphics into LyX the editor will show them at
> original size. The graphics may be set to show at some scaling down
> percent, but LyX will show them at the same size.
> 
> The problem with this is that it it makes document editing harder by
> taking up a lot of screen space and having to scroll too much and
> loose overview.
> 
> I would like LyX to scale the shown graphics in a smart way (I don't
> know which is that) or maybe show them at the scale chosen by the
> user in the graphics dialog. Any other method of easing work with
> these big graphics is welcome.

This is a bit tricky. According to #3674 [1] in the LyX bugtracker you
should see an instant preview so that you can adjust the scaling while
having the insert dialog still open. Currently this doesn't work on Linux.

After all this is still not exactly what you've asked for. A bit more in this
direction is #2151 [2] which asks for an automatic scaling factor setting.

One more in the same direction is #2200 [3]. Still not exactly what you asked
for but I guess this is very close if you get some automatic scaling that
adjusts to your current screen size.

I'm unsure which one fits best here or if I should forward this in a new
report.
Any recommendations?

Sven

[1] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/3674
[2] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2151
[3] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2200
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