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can't accept changes to options....

Open cooch17 opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Running latest PT-NG under TBird 128.3.3esr (64-bit) - Windows 10. Had to do a re-install of Thunderbird, and when I re-installed PT-NG, fond that (i) it was pulling settings from somewhere, and (ii) the 'OK' button to accept changes is greyed out on every option tab.

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I've tried uninstalling the ad-on a couple of times, and manually wiping out everything related to PT-NG I can find (e.g., various sub-dirs under AppsData).

No idea where it is pulling settings from, since uninstall the Addon supposedly does away with those. Apparently not. And, whatever it is doing to pull the settings makes it impossible to change them.

Really puzzled. Any suggestions?

cooch17 avatar Oct 26 '24 19:10 cooch17

So, the problem (bug?) stems from the situation where you've set 'scaling' to be anything other than the default (100%). If you use the default 'fit to width', you can in fact make changes to anything, and the 'OK' button is no longer greyed-out, and you can 'accept' the changes. Is there a particular reason why one particular setting on the final tab 'Print and Page options' completely overrides anything a user might tweak or want to tweak on the preceding tabs? It took me a long time to figure out that 'scaling' was the culprit.

cooch17 avatar Oct 26 '24 20:10 cooch17

PrintingTools NG 3.1.0 Thunderbird 128.4.2esr 64bit Windows 10 Pro 22H2 64bit

@cooch17 In my case, the [OK] button was not grayed out after changing the scaling from 100% to 110% or 120%. So the cause is unknown.

If you want to try something else, there is a way to scale up or down the overall display of Thunderbird itself. You can change it in the “Config Editor”.

Thunderbird Menu Bar --> Tools --> Settings --> General --> Config Editor (bottom part) layout.css.devPixelsPerPx = -1.0 (default)

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Click on the pencil icon to change the value. To reduce the value, change to 0.90, 0.80, 0.70, etc. To zoom in, change to 1.10, 1.20, etc. Set the value to a value that is easy for you to see.

@kiki-ja

kiki-ja avatar Nov 08 '24 18:11 kiki-ja