Page Centering in Publisher

[Hangman]

This is the most minor of issues and I almost feel bad for raising it but I'm finding it mildly annoying from a presentation point of view...

• Double-click a page in the Pages panel and the page is centred within the viewport
• Use any of the Document Page Navigation options, First Page, Previous Page, Next Page, Last Page or Go to Page... and the page is displayed slightly off-centre within the viewport

[GarryP]

Confirmed in Publisher 2.2 on Windows 10.

Also, in my limited testing, the zoom level is slightly different between using the two methods – slightly higher percentage value when page is double-clicked in Pages Panel.

Like you say, it’s a minor issue, but fixing it would make for a ‘smoother’ user experience.

[Hangman]

Looking at the zoom level in the status bar for me it remains the same but I guess it may depend on screen size and resolution (I'm not sure)...

[GarryP]

I think you might be right.

I tried creating a simple non-facing document with 5 pages of 3”x3” and I saw no zoom changes.

However, I created a different non-facing document with 5 pages of A4 Portrait and the zoom changed from 73% (after pressing the “Last Spread” button) to 71% after double-clicking the last page in the Pages Panel, but was unable to replicate it after that (the slight shift in position is still there though).

The 'zoom thing' might be a 'red herring'.

[Hangman]

8 minutes ago, GarryP said:

However, I created a different non-facing document with 5 pages of A4 Portrait and the zoom changed from 73% (after pressing the “Last Spread” button) to 71% after double-clicking the last page in the Pages Panel, but was unable to replicate it after that (the slight shift in position is still there though).

I think that's likely the result of having more than one tab open, i.e. if you create a new A4 document with no other documents open, there are effectively no tabs and subsequently, the viewport height is 44 pixels higher. When you open a second document both now appear in individual tabs and the viewport height for both shrinks by 44 pixels so even though initially both documents show the same zoom level if you do a Cmd 0 (Ctrl 0) Zoom to Fit for both tabs, that resizes both documents accordingly and is effectively the starting zoom level for both if that makes sense...

[GarryP]

Attached is a video showing what I get with only one document open – maybe I’m just missing something obvious.

[Hangman]

I think it's perhaps just a difference between Mac and Windows for whatever reason, following the same steps on Mac as shown in your screen recording keeps the zoom at the same value and not that it's relevant but on Mac, a single document doesn't appear in its own tab as it does on Windows...

[GarryP]

Like you say, just another of those Windows/macOS differences I guess.

Hopefully your original issue gets some attention from the developers when they have time.

[MikeTO]

It's not the document tabs that throw off the calculation but the rulers. I've reported this before.

Solution - turn off the rulers. 🙂

 

[Hangman]

Good spot, though it would of course still be nice if you didn't need to turn the rules off but at least there is a workaround...

[thomaso]

6 hours ago, Hangman said:

at least there is a workaround...

... while there is none if you want to jump (not scroll) between spreads in another zoom level than "Fit to …" with the focus other than the spread centre. The pages panel thumbnails zoom out to the full spread, the navigation arrows center the view on the next spread. :-(