[Qgis-user] scale of features on screen = real scale?

[Carlos Grohmann]

Hi all

I just noticed that setting a given scale in QGIS does not result in seeing
the features on screen at that scale.

For instance, if I set the scale to 1:500.000, a feature measuring 100km
should have 20cm on the screen (or printed). But to get close to that, I
must set the scale to 260.000 (my monitor is at 3200x1800 px).

Any way to make the visual scale match the real one? I'm trying to see how
a map would look when printed, to check if the details will show up nicely
without printing test pages.

best

Carlos


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