Make mouse wheel zoom in Inkscape (scroll wheel zoom in/out without CTRL modifier key)
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Missing "Mouse wheel zooms by default"? Optimize usability with this short reconfiguration, which is very different since 1.1.
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Thanks! You saved me hours of searching.
Thank you.
And I have no idea why this isn't the default behaviour.
Because with scroll wheel zoom and holding middle mouse to pan, you can rapidly pan / zoom to anywhere you like, in a fraction of a second.
While who really just scrolls up and down, in small increments, with the scroll wheel in a program like Inkscape? And most mice don't have scroll left / right on the wheel to do comparable scrolling in both directions. The middle mouse pan is superior for this anyway, as it's an analogue control, for speed and precision, to anywhere you want in a single swipe of the hand.
All art programs should operate this way by default and I always configure them like that, so it's kind of frustrating that the default behaviour is the crap one that no-one actually wants.
They removed "Mouse wheel zooms by default" in v1.1.2 release 2 (portable version). It's super annoying not to have this feature that i've been using for YEARS.
Thank you lots for showing this!
I'm just trying the new beta Inkscape 1.1 and zooming without the ctrl key was the first thing where I got stuck and couldn't find an option to change it.
Btw, are there really some folks, who prefer to use mouse wheel in a drawing editor just for scrolling instead of zooming?
If there are any such people then, frankly, they've just gotten it wrong.
As you can pan by holding down the middle mouse, which is fast and precise - analogue mouse control - so that ought always to be preferred to repeatedly scrolling in small fixed increments. Like, it's slower and it's more imprecise. And, in this case, it's "blocking" where an easy-to-reach zoom function ought to go instead, which is also very, very necessary to have easy access to in a vector illustration program like this.
The defaults are wrong. Perhaps the idea is "make it familiar to Adobe Illustrator users" but this is honestly wrong when this is where Adobe gets it wrong - by their own admission, as they have caved and allowed it to possible in the latest versions - and it was a major "we've got it better than Adobe" feature to parade front-and-centre.
(I call this "the king of the castle" problem. You're King of the castle, sitting high above everyone and you look out over the lands and see that, oh, everyone else has wooden walls, not stone walls. "Maybe I'm doing something wrong, as everyone else is doing it a different way to me". So you change your strong stone castle walls for weaker wooden ones, convinced you made the wrong choice to have stone walls, as you can't see anyone else doing that. But, no, you're the one who actually got it right. You have the best walls. It's a good thing that you're different here, as you're the one who's not repeating the same mistakes everyone else is making.
But, no, human psychology. Judging ourselves against others, we can foolishly discard the one thing we're actually doing better than everyone else, thinking that we must be doing something wrong by not "fitting in" with "tradition". The thought never occurs that maybe "tradition" has got it wrong all this time and you're now better than the rest for rejecting it and going your own way.)
Thanks so much! It was driving me nuts... Obscure fix, glad you showed the way.
thanks a lot for the tutorial. I was frustrated about how to find a setting like this, and you finally came up with the best solution
genius 😁😁😁 working good in version 1.2 - 2023
Awesome! Thank you so much)
Well that's a crazy new change to the mouse scrolling. THANK YOU for showing us how to fix this!
Thank you! I was getting upset, 'cause I wasn't finding the old zoom option... haha
I am so infuriated by this bullcrap.
Thank you for this video, though, it's a life-saver.
thank you! this panning was driving me crazy on the apple magic mouse. it was like i was chasing the document. i set vertical panning to use the shift key. now super useful.
Thank you for showing where it is located.
omg itss been sso long since you last uploaded
no it hasnt lol
Excellent. Thank you very much! This behaviour is enfuriatingly inconsistent between Adobe Illustrator and PhotoShop and there's no way to configure it afaik. It's nice to know the FOSS community has our six!
Really appreciate this. I'm an old school Coreldraw convert and this was a given. Thank you!
thank you so much. save my day :)
i was looking for this
This was soooo helpful to me thank you!👍
Edit > Preferences > Interface > Keyboard > Modifiers tab > Canvas: Disable Ctrl in Canvas zoom and enable Ctrl in Vertical pan
Hi !
your 're the man who saved my life today !
Thanks for sharing !
Thanks, i had almost given up on this one :)
Thanks a ton! Been looking for this.
thanks so much! i will preferred to have this more easy
Thank you! Super helpful.
Thank you!
great explanation😍
You're great, that's why I wasn't using the new version. Thank you!..
Thank you this has helped me
Thank you very much Sir !!
Life savior !
lifesaver
Super helpful. Thx
brother, I need to use right click of mouse instead of middle click to pan around canvas (the way it pans in premiere pro). Is there a way to do it. Maybe just map the function of space bar key to right click of mouse.
Thank you! However and ironically though, this brings up another bug, assign horizontal pan to ctrl instead of mouse wheel, the new function still zooms. Argghh!
gracias, esta configuración debería venir por defecto
hm in version 1.3 I don´t have that option :-( I need ctrl+mouse wheel for the dynamic offset which wont work cause it zooms. How can I turn it off when I don´t have your option?
Please tell me how to make Inkscape not zoom in when I release the Mousewheel after holding it down. Sometimes it zooms in when I do that, sometimes it doesn't. I hate this.
Inkscape programmers devilishly play with our minds as if we were their puppets. This sure is one more piece of a larger long-term plan.
Мужик , Спасибо огромное!!!
in my inkscape there is no that part of the mouse wheel settings, the downloaded version is Inkscape 1.1.2 (b8e25be833, 2022-02-05)
Thank you for this info. I am new to the Inscape software and I need to learn better and better.
But I have another problem: When the zoom is bigger( in the precis work)the horizontal cursor moves the design left or right too much. In fact, for my precis work, I need to move if it is possible pixel by pixel. Is there an option to make this move in the bigger magnify?
broooo thank youuu :)))
thank you
you are Inkscape Jesus
God Bless you
It worked for me.. but only when the selection tool is not selected
Bruh why would they move it from scroll? Just have it 2 places. It's the much more intuitive place for it to be. I also don't know why this isn't the default, it's so much easier to work with scroll being zoom
Because Photoshop behaves this way and (hyperbole alert) somebody has an inferiority complex when looking at the crappledobe ecosystem (I'm guessing)
thanks
thank a lot
Excelent!
btw not working on new versions of inkscape
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How is this not the default option?
isn't option Mouse wheel by default
Like
they removed the option
Thank you.
And I have no idea why this isn't the default behaviour.
Because with scroll wheel zoom and holding middle mouse to pan, you can rapidly pan / zoom to anywhere you like, in a fraction of a second.
While who really just scrolls up and down, in small increments, with the scroll wheel in a program like Inkscape? And most mice don't have scroll left / right on the wheel to do comparable scrolling in both directions. The middle mouse pan is superior for this anyway, as it's an analogue control, for speed and precision, to anywhere you want in a single swipe of the hand.
All art programs should operate this way by default and I always configure them like that, so it's kind of frustrating that the default behaviour is the crap one that no-one actually wants.
Thank you!
thanks
Thank you!
Thanks!