[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 81118] UI: add "fit page size to drawing" button to the page format window

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81118

--- Comment #7 from sergio.callegari at gmail.com ---
>> When creating drawings for publications, one typically needs a page size as
>> large as the drawing itself.

> You can change the page size to, for instance, A0 and zoom in/out. And you may
> also scale the complete drawing per Tools > Options > LibO Draw > General >
> Scale > Drawing Scale to achieve the same result without zooming. What is 
> missing?

Thanks for looking into it, but zoom and drawing scale are a very different
thing from what is being asked.

Zoom has to do with the Libreoffice UI, namely the way in which a drawing is
visualized. Scale has to do with the way in which LibO interprets distances on
the drawing.

What is being asked has to do with the drawing page size, as follows.

Suppose that I make a drawing containing elements that fit in a box that is
10cm by 5cm. Now, what I am looking for is a function assuring that once
invoked the drawing page size is made exactly 10cm by 5cm. Namely I would like
to get a function that sets the page size to exactly contain the drawing
elements *with no margin*. With this, after I export to PDF, I get a document
that also contains the drawing without margins. This is indispensable for many
real world publication flows (e.g. those for scientific papers. I can detail
these if needed).

> When you select a couple of objects and export them using the option
> "selection" the output will have the size of what you have selected. Resizing
> a page makes not much sense to me.

Have you actually tried? Unfortunately, it does not, at least not as far as
export to PDF is concerned on LibO 5.1.4.1. If you have a drawing on say an A4
page, and select some objects then export the selection to PDF, you get an A4
page with those objects. Furthermore, flows exist which manage images directly
in ODF format and also for them (which involve no "export") the page size needs
to be set correctly.

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