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
