[scribus] Center selected frame after zoom

a.l.e ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Sun Jan 2 11:20:35 CET 2011


hi,

> On 01/01/2011 12:00 PM, Margaret and George McIntosh wrote:
> > I put in a feature request (#9581) to center the selected frame
> > after zooming in. I often zoom in to a frame after selecting it. I
> > usually have to recenter the frame on the screen and often it has
> > even gone off screen and I have to find it. I think it would be a
> > useful feature.
> >
> > I was surprised that a note was added to the request: "Can't agree.
> > Imagine you have to align something precisely near one side of
> > selected frame and need to zoom to ratio at which center does not
> > fit screen." It seems to me that this would occur far less than
> > what I described and could be re- placed on the screen after
> > zooming, or better yet, use the X Y coordinates for alignment.
> > I was wondering what the general consensus is, auto-center after
> > zooming or not? Maybe make it optional in the document settings.
> > George
> 
> At one point I had the impression that a selected frame was centered
> on zooming, but either that was delusional or it's a lost feature.
> 
> I think that some kind of augmented centering would be useful.
> 
> One might consider either having a menu item/keystroke to use to
> center a selected object, or perhaps just being able to grab the page
> with the mouse and move it would not only be as good, but perhaps
> even better.

currently, working with

- ctrl-mouse wheel to zoom
- mouse wheel for vertical scrolling
- shift-mouse wheel for horizontal scrolling (or horizontal scrolling directly if you have a "good" mouse)

works fairly good.

but some shortcuts like the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in inkscape would be welcome!

ciao
a.l.e



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