how to turn off "Rotate document view"

[Nodsatcher]

How can I turn off Rotate document view when I am pressing alt and scrooling?

This only started after I updated to 1.9 and its really annoying. so is there any way to turn this off?

[MEB]

Hi @Nodsatcher,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Go to Affinity Preferences, Tools section and untick Enable canvas rotation with command+scroll wheel.

[Nodsatcher]

2 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi @Nodsatcher,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Go to Affinity Preferences, Tools section and untick Enable canvas rotation with command+scroll wheel.

wow that was simple! thank you so much! I really love the update so far!

[MiloW]

What kind of a moron makes such a feature default in the first place?

You want more users and to make them feel "like at home" OR NOT.

STOP doing such idiotic changes! First Figma, now you.

Another one - you could make a tooltip next to "scrubby" zoom because I have no F**king idea what that is and whether I want it or not.

[Mark Ingram]

1 hour ago, MiloW said:

What kind of a moron makes such a feature default in the first place?

You want more users and to make them feel "like at home" OR NOT.

STOP doing such idiotic changes! First Figma, now you.

Another one - you could make a tooltip next to "scrubby" zoom because I have no F**king idea what that is and whether I want it or not.

I did. Sorry if that upset you.

[MEB]

Hi @MiloW,
Scrubby zoom refers to the ability to zoom in/out by clicking/holding the mouse button while dragging left (zoom out) or right (zoom in) in the Zoom Tool.

[DesignStationYT]

On 2/5/2021 at 11:00 AM, MEB said:

Hi @Nodsatcher,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Go to Affinity Preferences, Tools section and untick Enable canvas rotation with command+scroll wheel.

Ohhh, so glad we can turn this off. I've been accidentally rotating files non-stop since the 1.9 updates and it's been driving me nuts!

[kalluessen]

Hi. I stumbled across this issue as well. I was wondering when zooming in and out is done by default with cmd + "+" and cmd + "-" why is zooming done with the modifier "option" instead of cmd as well as it used in many applications across macOS.

Is there a possibility to change mouse wheel zoom modifier from option to cmd?

[MikeTO]

Customizing keyboard shortcuts is a great idea if like me you keep accidentally doing this like rotating the document view or worse, changing font size, leading, or tracking, something you might not even notice you're doing. Those keyboard shortcuts are great for certain types of design work, such as creatively designing a poster or sign, but if you're working on a book with a rigid style sheet they're accidents waiting to happen. After I had a few such accidents I went through and turned off every text shortcut I didn't need or want, and simplified the ones I actually use.

I'm not complaining about the shortcuts (well maybe about rotating document view :-) because they're useful for others but it's a good idea to invest the time to make the shortcuts your own.