Re: Multi-Page View UI

w00t. Thanks for finishing this in my absence. :-)

My original intent was to copy Word and OpenOffice.org, and put some
additional controls in the View -> Zoom -> Zoom... dialog.
This would allow the user to select an arbitrary number of pages to
show at "Page width" zoom level.

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Zoom to

O 200%
O 100%
O 75%
O Page width
O Whole page
O Percent:
 [ 100% |^/v]

{Then to the right of that}

[x] Display multiple pages
[ ] Automatic {Selecting this uses the current multipage behavior,
disables the spinbox below, and switches from "Page width" to "75%"
zoom level}
 [ 2 |^/v] {Setting this to a value will just make that number of
pages fit in the window, no matter what size it is. Would work with
Page width zoom level.}
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> One suggestion I might add (without trying it) is adding a custom zoom
> level called "two pages" (in the toolbar) that sets the zoom such that
> you can fit two pages in the current window size. Might make the
> feature more discoverable.

That's also good. :-)

 --James

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
>
> Martin Sevior wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>> Today, my time, Marc committed the multi-page view
>> code to TRUNK. Congratulations to James Denton who worked on this code
>> for his Google Summer of Code project! I'm now asking for a bit of
>> advice on how to finish it off. As things currently stand, multi-page
>> view is triggered if while in Page View mode 2 more pages will fit
>> across the screen. To do this you must put the zoom level to a fixed
>> value and expand the horizontal width of the screen. It does this
>> automatically with no preference setting.
>>
>> I'm actually very comfortable with this behaviour. One could imagine
>> various other options that could be set via preferences or dialogs but
>> I really like the simplicity of this approach.
>>
>> Now as things currently stand if you set your view to "Normal Mode"
>> multi-page view will never be triggered at all.
>>
>> Are people comfortable with this? Or should we have mult-ipage view
>> for normal too?
>>
>> In any case, enjoy our New Feature!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
> One suggestion I might add (without trying it) is adding a custom zoom
> level called "two pages" (in the toolbar) that sets the zoom such that
> you can fit two pages in the current window size. Might make the
> feature more discoverable.
>
> --
> Ryan Pavlik
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Received on Sun Nov 16 21:03:39 2008