On Tuesday 28 September 2004 21:38, Ben Crowder wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:24:27PM +0200, Craig Bradney wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 September 2004 21:13, Ben Crowder wrote: > > > Is there any plan to implement a simple zoom in/out function? > > > Having the preset 50%/75%/100%/etc. is nice, but most of the time > > > when I've used PageMaker, being able to easily zoom in and out > > > without having to think about what zoom percentage I'm at is rather > > > nice. (And once it's there, keyboard shortcuts like + and - can be > > > used, like in Inkscape.) > > > > Control 0 and 1 work, as shown in the View menu. > > > > You can also set 50%, 75% and 200% in Settings, Keyboard Shortcuts. > > > > You can also Click and rotate the mouse wheel if you have one. > > I don't (I'm on a laptop), which is why having keyboard shortcuts > would be really nice. Most DTP programs I've seen (PageMaker, > etc.), along with other graphics programs (Inkscape, Gimp, etc.) > will let you zoom in and out, usually at smaller increments, too > (10% maybe?). Would it be too hard to clone Inkscape's zoom > behavior?
No, it wont be too hard, but I doubt it will happen now in the 1.2.x series - maybe. We do plan to mirror a lot of the common shortcuts from programs like Inkscape in 1.3.x. > Anyway, I'm really really really impressed with Scribus and am > excited to see it grow. I used it last night to put together a > picture scrapbook of about 90 megs' worth of pictures and there was > no slowdown at all. Very, very nice. :) Cool :) Nice to hear :) Craig
