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Okular's view/zoom sizes are too small. When I set the zoom size to 100% the display of a document is smaller than the original size. I estimated a value of approximately 128% to show documents at a real 100% size. This issue has been unchanged throughout all updates of the recent half year (I just started working with (K)Ubuntu then).

Other programs (e.g. LibreOffice, PDFmod, PDFsam) do show documents at 100% zoom with a real 100% size.

I have two monitors connected with no difference in this effect.

System: Kubuntu 14.04, KDE 4.13.3, Linux (x86_64) release 3.16.0-71-generic; Okular: 0.19.3

If someone could help on this issue, it would easy my life a little bit, because clicking and entering each time "128+[ENTER]" is meanwhile shattering my nerves. <:-[

Thank you.

Jens
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I had the same problem with Evince (the PDF viewer for GNOME and Unity systems) and some other applications. The issue can be solved by explicitly telling your (physical) display size to the X server.

Create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-monitor.conf and add the following content:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "<default monitor>"
    DisplaySize 294 165    # In millimeters
EndSection

You have to change the numerical values and you might also need to tweak the identifier if you have more than one monitor.

Andrea Lazzarotto
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