Bug#69728: xdvi doesn't preview in "actual size"
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.6-7
Severity: wishlist
xdvi doesn't seem to have an option to view the pages in "actual
size". Such an option could query the display's physical size from
the X server, and use that and the resolution to calculate the
geometry of the page in pixels.
(xdpyinfo displays the necessary information, and the X server's -dpi
command-line option can be used to set it.)
This would be a nice thing to have to preview documents as close as
possible to the final printed output. For example, it would be easier
to see if a particular figure is too big if xdvi's window would be the
same size as an actual piece of paper.
As an example, gv (the frontend to GhostScript) does seem to respect
the physical display size by default; the -dpi setting has an effect
on the initial window size, and the 1:1 scale looks correct on my
monitor with a -dpi setting that I calculated for it. It would be nice
if xdvi did something similar.
(I suspect that xdvi displays DVI files in such a way that they can
only be scaled in rather large discrete steps (at least the "s"
command seems to work like that), so this feature may be difficult to
implement.)
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