Python-docx: Default docx zoom = 203%

[robertoloja]

In python-docx/docx/templates/default.docx, when it is unzipped, line 2 of the file word/settings.xml is

<w:zoom w:val="bestFit" w:percent="203"/>

This means the default template opens in MS Word at 203% zoom, which is obnoxious for testing documents created with python-docx.

While I have changed my own template to read w:percent="100", maintainers might consider setting this to a more reasonable value.

[vwbusguy]

I can verify this issue. Worse, is the hard-coding seems to override word processor defaults, unless it's saved with a new zoom. 100% seems to be a sane default, but might be even nicer if this wasn't hard-coded at all and just left with "bestFit" or template default.

[welkerc]

Leaving only "bestFit" is quite a nice change to going from a readable document to being zoomed way in when I need to reload a document.

[vwbusguy]

I confirm that just removing the w:percent attribute opens it in the default zoom - a much more convenient outcome!

[scanny]

Ok guys, good to know. Especially since w:percent isn't implemented yet :)

Can you give me an idea what the end-user experience is and on what kind of machine?

My development platform is relative huge, screen-wise (27" 2560x1440), so that probably accounts for the large size.

I'd be a little disinclined to change something that's already worked it's way into running systems, but if it sucks for everybody (except me :) then it might be a welcome change.

[welkerc]

I was using it on my fedora laptop screen which is 15.6" 1920x1080 as well as my 24"s at 1920x1080, I run things windowed, not full screen, so I can reference multiple things at once.

[vwbusguy]

Similar specs to the above. The hard-coding means, I have to zoom out a document to see it all, regardless of window size. It's a minor inconvenience for the first time opening a document and a much larger one for continually testing them from programmatically generated - especially since hard-coding the percent overrides the program defaults.

[vwbusguy]

As an alternative, you could add percent as an optional document attribute, though simply omitting it should simply default to the user's word processor settings.

[shw1n]

Would also really appreciate this fix

[miku]

As a hack on OS X, you can post-adjust the zoom via external AppleScript.

[scanny]

Fixed in release v0.8.7 circa Aug 18 2018.

[martinjevans]

A very welcome fix. It's working fine for me.

[scanny]

Great, thanks for letting me know @martinjevans :)