Frank Forsman Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Hi I used Illustrator software for many years, but due to multiple crashes and heaviness in new versions (it was very difficult for me) so I decided to use Affinity Designer, because it is very light and smooth (even for computers with low processing and low graphics) but unfortunately one of the problems is here, in Illustrator I kept the "Alt" key to zoom in and out by rotating the middle mouse button to make the image smaller and larger Unfortunately in this software I have to hold down the "Ctrl" key to do this, please help me how I can change this feature and replace the "Alt" and "Ctrl" keys to zoom in and out This is very bad for my nerves because for years I used software that I used to zoom by holding down the Alt key. cbasstn and Westerwälder 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G13RL Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Hi @Frank Forsman, You don't need to use one of the "Alt" or "Ctrl" keys to zoom in or out: instead of just rotating the central mouse button, press and hold it while you rotate it. If you want to keep your habits, it will also work if you use the "Alt" key (in this particular case, I think it has no effect, the central mouse button takes precedence over it), just remember to press the central mouse button when you rotate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Forsman Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) 22 hours ago, G13RL said: Hi @Frank Forsman, You don't need to use one of the "Alt" or "Ctrl" keys to zoom in or out: instead of just rotating the central mouse button, press and hold it while you rotate it. If you want to keep your habits, it will also work if you use the "Alt" key (in this particular case, I think it has no effect, the central mouse button takes precedence over it), just remember to press the central mouse button when you rotate it. Thanks for your help, but your solution makes it harder, I'm willing to hold down the CTRL key until I hold down the middle mouse button and rotate it, probably a month later the middle mouse button will crash, something You say that I should use B instead of A. I just wanted to find a way to replace CTRL with ALT Edited January 30, 2021 by Frank Forsman CLC and Jowday 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted February 1, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 1, 2021 On 1/30/2021 at 5:50 AM, Frank Forsman said: I just wanted to find a way to replace CTRL with ALT Hi Frank, unfortunately there's no option to switch these within Affinity currently, my apologies. I can see this thread is in the feedback section of our forums for our devs to see and consider adding this option in a future update SimonBusta 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbasstn Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 I would like to second the request for a way to change the behavior of the ALT key, especially to stop me from rotating my workspace everytime I want to zoom in or out as a past Photoshop user. Thanks, Sebastian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted July 19, 2021 Staff Share Posted July 19, 2021 Hi @cbasstn, Welcome to the Affinity Forums Unfortunately it's not possible to switch the shortcuts from CTRL to ALT and vice-versa, however you can disable this specific Alt + Mouse Scroll behaviour that is rotating your canvas. To disable this, please navigate to Edit > Preferences > Tool and then untick Enable Canvas Rotation with Alt + Mouse Scroll Wheel. I hope this helps! cbasstn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbasstn Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Thank you Dan, that does help me a lot! 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRENG! Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 I've been struggling to wrap my head around this problem too. Yes it is a problem, because other application that i use daily (Blender, Davinci Resolve, Fusion, even DAW like REAPER) OOTB used Cmd + Mousewheel to Zoom In/Out. Intuitively it is like a standard convention. Currently only Affinity Designer/Photo use Alt + Mousewheel to Zoom on my system. Thus, every single time i need to zoom, i end up rotating my canvas instead. It is very tedious, to reset to rotation (because it is also NOT undoable, not something easily reverted with a common keyboard shortcut). Zooming In/Out is a something we all do most of the time in Designer anyway, it's used more often than rotating canvas. A very common most used task such as Zoom In/Out with wrong mouse modifier often make me lost my train of thoughts, because i have to set and remember another keyboard shortcut just to reset the rotation or diving into menus searching the right command to reset the canvas. That is a very poor user experience. If it's something idiosyncratic to the way Designer/Photo designed/programmed, at least give users the options to swap Cmd vs Alt as modifiers to Zoom / Rotate canvas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbasstn Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, JRENG! said: I've been struggling to wrap my head around this problem too. Yes it is a problem, because other application that i use daily (Blender, Davinci Resolve, Fusion, even DAW like REAPER) OOTB used Cmd + Mousewheel to Zoom In/Out. Intuitively it is like a standard convention. Currently only Affinity Designer/Photo use Alt + Mousewheel to Zoom on my system. Thus, every single time i need to zoom, i end up rotating my canvas instead. It is very tedious, to reset to rotation (because it is also NOT undoable, not something easily reverted with a common keyboard shortcut). Zooming In/Out is a something we all do most of the time in Designer anyway, it's used more often than rotating canvas. A very common most used task such as Zoom In/Out with wrong mouse modifier often make me lost my train of thoughts, because i have to set and remember another keyboard shortcut just to reset the rotation or diving into menus searching the right command to reset the canvas. That is a very poor user experience. If it's something idiosyncratic to the way Designer/Photo designed/programmed, at least give users the options to swap Cmd vs Alt as modifiers to Zoom / Rotate canvas. I second that, it should be considered since it it covers various problems here like the canvas rotation not being undoable, the aspect of loosing creative focus over it and the fact that choosing ALT over CMD / CTRL just creates one more barrier when reaching out to new users who are currently using PS or similar industry standard tools. Edited October 25, 2021 by cbasstn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 On 1/28/2021 at 10:39 PM, Frank Forsman said: but unfortunately one of the problems is here, in Illustrator I kept the "Alt" key to zoom in and out by rotating the middle mouse button to make the image smaller and larger Which makes me despise it because any other program not named Photoshop or Illustrator use the Control key on windows to Zoom (well, Adobe XD has both). Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Mc Fazdean Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Dear Affinity Team, changing to above mentioned "industry standards" (i.e. alt = zoom) would be a welcome upgrade to the usability of your software. Giving the users choice to change which key ctrls what would be even more phantastic. Best Regards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 On 11/12/2021 at 11:24 PM, Greg Mc Fazdean said: changing to above mentioned "industry standards" (i.e. alt = zoom) would be a welcome upgrade to the usability of your software. I must have a lot of non "industry standard" apps, as most are the same as in Affinity! Frozen Death Knight and RNKLN 2 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 39 minutes ago, PaulEC said: I must have a lot of non "industry standard" apps, as most are the same as in Affinity! That is the true beauty of Standards, industry or otherwise, we can have as many as we want. [smiley face] Frozen Death Knight, Mithferion, mrqasq and 1 other 4 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skindermann Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Yes, please change this or give users the possibility to switch Keys. It's annoying like hell. Is there any reason why it's done in another way that's not standard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 13 hours ago, Skindermann said: Is there any reason why it's done in another way that's not standard? Because this (Ctrl + mousewheel, same like Ctrl + "+/-") is "standard" behavior for zooming. PaulEC, Frozen Death Knight and SimonBusta 3 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Podsada Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 In case this helps anyone, in Affinity Designer 2 there is an option in Preferences > Tools for "Zoom with mouse wheel". If you turn this on, the canvas zooms when you roll the mouse wheel without any modifier key. If you subsequently turn off the "Rotate canvas with Alt key", then you'll effectively get zoom while alt-scrolling (even though the alt is not needed.) It satisfies the need to work this way. Using it without a modifier key is like hooking up ChatGPT to the hoist in Image A by Frank above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 Affinity copied the Duplicate shortcut of Command+J but not the zoom operation mechanics? What was the thinking behind that decision making? Chul 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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