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Peter Severin Carlsen
Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 105
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
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 Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 4:30 pm Post subject: Zoom in and Out |
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In the early versions of PowerDraw when you zoomed in there would be a rectangle that magically appeared on the screen and you could place around the limited area that would expand to fill the screen before you clicked the mouse. In the later versions the box disappeared but at least you could be sure that the zoom in happened around the center of the next mouse click.
Now I find that PowerCadd zooms in always around the origin in the upper left corner of the screen even if I want to look at something in the lower right corner. Why can't I zoom in centered on where I want rather than where the computer finds easy. Is this the because of vaunted code in OS-X or is it PowerCadd?
Perhaps someone will tell me this still exists as explained on page something of the manual. I would be grateful if this was the case.
And I kind of miss that old rectangle that told me what part of the drawing was about to fill the screen. |
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JohnMorse
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 301
Location: Birmingham, AL
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:21 am Post subject: |
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I tend to almost exclusively use the "Zoomer" feature which comes with WildTools. With that feature enabled, pressing Cmd+Opt grays out the screen except for the window you would zoom into with a click. Clicking and dragging zooms to a user-defined window.
It's very handy and, like several other features of WildTools, very much worth buying if you don't have it already.
If you do have it, the full functionality is described on page 6 of the WildTools manual. |
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patrickm
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
Posts: 397
Location: santa barbara, ca
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:17 am Post subject: |
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As I recall, with PC8, I was having trouble with the zoom feature -- the zoom was on the center of the screen instead of centered on the mouse. I emailed Mike Cleveland at ES about it and he sent me a fix a short time later. I've had no problems since.
(I just checked PC to see if it was working right and it seemed to not zoom into too much to me, then I realized that, with my 30" monitor, it was working correctly but it just didn't seem to zoom too much due to the monitor size.) |
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John Cruet
Joined: 30 Apr 2004
Posts: 352
Location: Guilford, CT
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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Of course, those of us with dual monitors have fun with the zoom feature as we can enable the Overview window and drag the rectangle to whichever area of the drawing we choose, then zoom in as we desire.
Other than that, the marquee zoom feature is very helpful and I hope that doesn't go away in future issues
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Rob C
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 572
Location: Southern Connecticut
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| Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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I almost exclusively use the "zoom in now" and "zoom out now" commands set to the 1 (no command or anything) and 2 keys. (I can't remember if that is a default setting or not) They hold a common point zoom to zoom based on the cursor location. Either way though, when I try the zoom in command (command-1), it gives a magnifying glass cursor and zooms in where you click it, so I don't know what you're experiencing.
I do remember the zoom rectangle.
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