Why does preview not scale images properly

Hello,
Recently I tried to use Preview to print an image and it scaled it up to around 613%, wasting lots of ink. I typed 100 into the box for the scaling factor and I got the same result. Only after considerable searching and gnashing of teeth did I find that you have to press the Tab key after you enter the value. This is documented in
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3043
My question is, what will it take for Apple to fix this? Isn't this a bug?
Intuitively, if you enter the value and click Print, then it should use the values displayed in the window. Not to do that is a bug.
Thanks,
Mark
p.s. This is in Snow Leopard.

Well, the question is what is a good design principle. Yes, the programmer decided something, but was it a good decision? You have a window where you can enter arguments to a function. At the bottom of the window is a button that says "Execute the function." If what you see on the screen makes sense as arguments to the function at the instant when you hit "Execute," should what you get correspond to what you see? I would say yes. I say this on the basis of a fair amount of programming experience, and also it seems to me to be common sense. I think that "Execute" (i.e., Print) amounts to "confirming" the input in this context; to expect further confirmation in the form of "Tab" plus "Execute" is unintuitive. That's my opinion, anyway.
Thanks to everyone for your feedback!
Best, Mark

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