Request: Zoom to selection

fwtep · Post by **fwtep** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:38 am

I'm using 1.9 beta 2 and I can't figure out how to zoom to a selection. Is that possible? In ACDSEE (sorry to bring that up) I can drag out a selection and zoom to that so it's full screen. If you can't do that right now, I'd like to suggest it for a future version (the sooner the better

).

Thanks,
Fred

V 1.90 B2

Dreamer · Post by **Dreamer** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:42 pm

Already possible. Options > Keyboard /mouse > Left button to use in selection > Zoom in. Then you can also move a selection by right button.

Moved to "1.90 - Info & Feedback".

fwtep · Post by **fwtep** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:48 pm

Thanks! I missed that setting somehow. It doesn't work quite exactly like in ACDSEE, which is how I'd like it, but maybe I'll get used to it. (In that program it zooms to fill the screen with only what's in the selection.)

Mishra · Post by **Mishra** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:26 am

Is there any way to make it work like ACDSee? It seems kind of random how it decides how much to zoom when making a selection. I'd like to just select an area and have it make that area take the whole screen (with proper ratio of course).

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:06 pm

In previous posts an option is mentioned. After changing the option you can use left mouse click for zooming to selection.
Those who do not want to change the option can simply make a selection, move the mouse cursor inside the selection and press Ctrl + (left) mouse click for Zooming in. For Zooming out, you press Ctrl + Shift + (left) mouse click.

Mishra wrote:Is there any way to make it work like ACDSee? It seems kind of random how it decides how much to zoom when making a selection. I'd like to just select an area and have it make that area take the whole screen (with proper ratio of course).

I don't know how ACDSee works. From what I can see zooming a selection works o.k. in XnView (apart from the big "border" around it after zooming). Could you please describe the problem you have with it?

Mishra · Post by **Mishra** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:17 pm

When I select an area and zoom in XNView it doesn't zoom in the full distance, so a large area outside of what I selected is still visible on the screen. Sometimes if I try to select the majority of the image, only cutting off say 1cm from the top and bottom, it actually zooms out instead of zooming in.

In ACDSee, when you select an area, that area then fills the entire screen exactly. If you select a straight line up and down for half the image area, it stretches the image so the top and bottom points selected become the top and bottom of the visible image area.

If you select a straight line left to right, the same happens but horizontally.

Basically the problem is with the accuracy of the zoom, instead of zooming exactly on what is selected, it seems to go 'near enough'.