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c91c1793a3 #2108: File › Print scales pages to another paper size (#2699)
* #2108: File › Print scales pages to another paper size

Scale to paper size on File › Print (Word: Pages per sheet › Scale to
paper size): No Scaling or any Layout › Size paper (Letter, Legal, A4, …).
Every page is scaled to the paper and centred, the paper turned to the
page's orientation, in the preview, the print job and Save these pages
as PDF. Native jobs also ask the spooler for that media. The document's
page size is unchanged. New `paper` param on ui.print/ui.printSubmit and
file.printPdf; unknown papers are errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* pdf: bookmark destinations from #2364 use the scaled Fit too

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Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
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Hardware parity with Microsoft Word

Last reviewed: 2026-10-12 · Last updated: 2026-10-15 · Change: trivial (Pen / stylus row: two-stroke and closed-head arrows; previously trivial: Pen / stylus row: ink, eraser and Ink to Shape incl. arrows landed; previously trivial: a window too big for its screen shrinks to fit when it opens, #1215; previously trivial: 32-bit Windows starts on OpenGL; previously major: first version) · Target: Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4 and Word for Windows

Printing update: 2026-10-12 · direct desktop printing through craft-print; details below.

Word is not a hardware-heavy app, but a few devices matter to its users: printers above all, then pens, microphones (Dictate) and speakers (Read Aloud), and displays.

Dimension: ~40% (estimated), 20–40 h to full (pen/ink hours are counted with the Draw tab in target-app-parity.md).

Hardware Word WordCraft macOS Windows Linux / BSD Web Parity Hours
Printers: native print dialog, printer choice, copies, duplex, page ranges, tray, scaling ✅ (WordPDE.plugin print-dialog extension on Mac) 🟡 Direct CUPS printing; printer, copies, collation, duplex, ranges, grayscale and scale to paper size 🟡 Direct spooler printing; printer, copies, collation, duplex, ranges, grayscale and scale to paper size 🟡 Direct spooler printing; printer, copies, collation, duplex, ranges, grayscale and scale to paper size ✅ browser print dialog (#209) 35% 5–8
GPU rendering, HiDPI/Retina, pixel-aligned text ✅ ✅ wgpu + vello_cpu rasteriser, whole-pixel text (#110, #165) ✅ DirectX 12 default (#50), OpenGL when DirectX 12 has no GPU driver (#316) or on 32-bit; startup crash on Intel UHD (#170) ✅ (soft text on KDE at some zooms, #140) ✅ 80% 3–5 (bugs)
Pen / stylus: ink, pressure, eraser, ink to shape/math ✅ (Draw tab, InkRender.bundle) 🟡 ink, stroke eraser, Ink to Shape incl. one- and two-stroke arrows with open or closed heads (#307, #395); pressure and Ink to Math missing 🟡 same 🟡 same 🟡 same 50% (Draw tab, 15–25)
Multiple monitors, per-monitor DPI, remembered window position, a window that fits its screen ✅ ✅ (#38, #76, #1215) ✅ (winit DPI fix pending, #155) ✅ — 85% 1
Microphone: Dictate ✅ (cloud speech service) ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ 0% 8–15 + owner (speech model choice)
Speakers: Read Aloud ✅ ✅ system speech, speed, sentence skip (#190) ✅ 🟡 🟡 75% 1–2
Touch screens and touchpads: pinch zoom, inertial scroll ✅ ✅ pinch (#179) ✅ ✅ inertial scroll (#252) ✅ 85% 0–1
Scanners/cameras (Insert from device / Continuity Camera on Mac) ✅ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ 0% 2–4

Revision history

Date Change Summary
2026-10-15 trivial Pen / stylus row: Ink to Shape also makes two-stroke arrows and arrows with a closed triangle head
2026-10-17 minor File › Print's Scale to paper size (#2108): pick Letter, Legal, A4 or any Layout › Size paper and every page is scaled to it and centred, the paper turned to each page's orientation, in the preview, the print job (with the spooler's media) and Save these pages as PDF; the document keeps its page size. paper param on ui.print/file.printPdf
2026-10-14 trivial Pen / stylus row corrected: ink, eraser and Ink to Shape (with arrows) work; pressure and Ink to Math missing
2026-10-13 trivial A window too big for its screen shrinks to fit when it opens (#1215): eframe sized the first window to the whole monitor, frame and taskbar not counted, so on a laptop screen its bottom, with the end of the scroll bar, was past the screen edge. A window saved that size is fitted on its next launch too
2026-10-12 trivial 32-bit Windows starts on OpenGL: DirectX 12 graphics pipeline creation returns "The parameter is incorrect" and the app exited before the window appeared
2026-10-12 minor Desktop File > Print now discovers printers and submits PDF jobs through pinned craft-print with printer choice, copies, duplex and grayscale; browser printing and PDF export remain available. The upstream preview, page ranges, parity and Print Markup remain available. Remaining print parity includes driver-specific tray/options and pages-per-sheet UI; physical printer fidelity needs hardware validation.
2026-10-10 trivial Windows falls back to OpenGL when DirectX 12 offers only the software adapter (#316)
2026-10-10 trivial Desktop File › Print opens the PDF in the system viewer (#286)
2026-10-10 trivial Inertial touchpad scrolling landed (#252)
2026-10-10 major First version