Why does the NWP produce a 128% zoom page by default?

[greenmorpher]

I wondered whether it had to do with the pixels on my screen. I believe they are 90 to the inch, which is 125% of 72.

Cheers, Geoff

Geoffrey Heard
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[xiamenese]

I wondered whether it had to do with the pixels on my screen. I believe they are 90 to the inch, which is 125% of 72.

I would guess your screen pitch is more likely 96 to the inch, which is 1.333 of 72, unless you have managed to set it arbitrarily. 128 is also better in binary than 125.



Mark

[martin]

128% is no longer the default- I believe we choose a default window size that is based on your screen. Offhand I don't know why we used to have 128% as the default zoom. Information lost to the sands of time.

128 is also better in binary than 125.

This is true, but only for integer numbers. The zoom is stored as a floating point (decimal) number, so this is not the reason- not that it ever would be

[greenmorpher]

I just wondered!

So now I have 128% because that's my template. I'll refuse to change it becasue I love tradition!

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Cheers, Geoff

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[greenmorpher]

Oh dear, non-traditional spelling.

Cheers, Geoff

[Sascha Erni]

128% is no longer the default- I believe we choose a default window size that is based on your screen. Offhand I don't know why we used to have 128% as the default zoom. Information lost to the sands of time.

Well, 96 dpi used to be sort-of a standard for TFTs and the like a couple of years ago (say, the then-ubiquitous 17" screens @ 1280x1024) . With a 128% zoom setting, you get pretty close to a 1:1 rendering of an actual page, on-screen.

So, yeah.

Cheerio,
-Sascha

[martin]

Ah, thanks for that logic Sascha, that's probably the reason!

[nev]

Mine defaults to 125%, regardless of screen I'm using.

Is this default setting changeable?

[martin]

Is this default setting changeable?

Indeed it is- you'll want to edit your Nisus New File. Here's how:

1. Open your NWP preferences.
2. Switch to the "New File" pane.
3. Click the "Advanced" tab.
4. Click the "Edit Nisus New File" button.
5. Change the zoom/placement of the window that opened.
6. Save your changes and close the file.

That should do it. All changes you made in step 5 should be reflected in any new documents you create.

[capvideo]

Inspired by Sascha's reasoning, a quick macro to zoom to match a printed page:

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#Make the document be the same size it would be printed

Menu “Page View”

#Remember if Show Page Width is turned on
$showPageWidth = Menu State “Show Page Width”

#Set the zoom to be the same as print
#I don’t know how to calculate this; I just put a printout on the screen
#and resized the document it came from until the widths matched
#and the text beneath matched
Set Zoom 138
#zoom so that the width of the document window shows the page 
Menu “Zoom”

#restore show page width if it had been on before; the paper-like zoom should remain
If $showPageWidth
	Menu “Show Page Width”
End

You'll have to set the zoom appropriate for your screen. I can't find a way to calculate it using data the OS knows.

Jerry