Re: preserving magnification from session to session?

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 18:38:00 EST

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    On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Christopher Pinon wrote:

    > > > (2) Is there any way of changing the default
    > > > magnification so that it
    > > > will be remembered from session to session? It
    > > > isn't clear to me
    > > > whether this is possible. (This would be a more
    > > > urgent feature for
    > > > small displays, and probably easier to implement as
    > > > well, because at
    > > > least on my 640x480 display a line of normal length
    > > > with Times 12pt at
    > > > 100% has to be scrolled. :-( )
    > >
    > > The development version has this capability. Until
    > > then, what you probably want to do is open
    > > ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile In the _custom_ section,
    > > add the following line: ZoomType="Width"
    >
    > Thanks for the tip. However, can one set ZoomType to an explicit
    > percentage value, e.g., 90%? I've tried both ZoomType="90%" and
    > ZoomType="Percent:90", but both are ignored. The problem is that 100%
    > is too large for my 640x480 display, but "Width" (which amounts to 72%
    > in my case) is too small.
    >

    Sorry. The development version does this but not 1.0.4. It is unlikely the
    1.0.x series will have this feature.

    Martin

    > Thanks again,
    > Ch. Pinon
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