Are there more refined methods of zooming?
Preston Jackson
pjackson at ee.byu.edu
Fri Jan 17 12:02:07 PST 2003
If you use the magnifying glass in the tool bar you can drag over a
section that you would like to zoom to fill the entire window (item #2).
If you don't have this tool it might have been turned off in the
Preferences:Drawing Tools. Turn it back on and you'll be set.
Preston
> From: Jason Hinze <jjh at cosmicflow.com>
> Date: Fri Jan 17, 2003 11:47:42 AM US/Mountain
> To: omnigraffle-users at omnigroup.com
> Subject: Are there more refined methods of zooming?
>
> The only zoom controls I've found in OmniGraffle are the
> "actual size", "zoom in" and "zoom out" menu items and
> and the zoom picker, with 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 150%,
> 200%, 400%, and 800% settings.
>
> These controls are far too coarse -- the "zoom in" and
> "zoom out" seem to operate only by a factor of 2x, and
> available choices in the picker are too far apart. What
> I'd really to be able to do is Adobe-style zooming:
>
> 1) Fit to window (command-0 in Adobe apps)
> This is the biggie. Can't live without it.
>
> 2) Something like the command-space-drag function
> in Adobe apps. This zooms the dragged-out area
> to fill the current working window. This is also a biggie,
> especially for working on very large drawings.
>
> 3) Smaller steps for the "zoom in" and "zoom out"
> commands. If we have #2, this is a nice-to-have,
> if not, it's a must-have.
>
> Are there any features like this in the current version of
> OmniGraffle that I'm just to boneheaded to discover?
> If so, please enlighten me. If not, do y'all think these
> features would be useful as well?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Hinze
>
>
>
>
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