Make zoom the command key again instead of rotate

[Callum Kloos]

Hi, 

I jump between a few different softwares and the affinity suite seems to be the only software that has rotate mapped to command+scroll. Everything else I use has that mapping for zoom. How can I change the key mapping in affinity so that it matches everything else that I use?

Thanks
Callum

[R C-R]

There are a number of settings in Preferences > Tools that control this. One is "Enable canvas Rotation with cmd+scroll wheel." Another is "Use mouse wheel to zoom."

I do not know if this is how it should work, but for me as long as the latter is enabled, it does not matter how the former is set -- rotating the mouse wheel always zooms, even if the CMD key is pressed.

[thetasig]

AFPUB 1.9.2  Mac (all versions)

I noted this and changed my preferences.

However, IF you rotate the canvass using cmd+scroll wheel, you cannot Undo this - and - you cannot return to the "zero point" since the transform menu is not active for this type of movement - the edges of the canvass remain "pixelated" (not able to make edges straight lines again no matter how you try to rotate it).

So... it seems that you have to close the document and start over.

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, thetasig said:

However, IF you rotate the canvass using cmd+scroll wheel, you cannot Undo this - and - you cannot return to the "zero point" since the transform menu is not active for this type of movement - the edges of the canvass remain "pixelated" (not able to make edges straight lines again no matter how you try to rotate it).

Undo does not work because you are not rotating the document, but your view of the document. This is the View > Rotate menu, not the Layer > Transform menu.

To return to the zero point you use View > Rotate > Reset Rotation menu. On Windows that has the default shortcut key Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R. You can look at the menu to see what yours is set to on Mac.

[R C-R]

26 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

On Windows that has the default shortcut key Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R. You can look at the menu to see what yours is set to on Mac.

In APub on my iMac, there is no assigned shortcut for that ... but I do not know if that is because I removed it or there is no default on Macs.

[Old Bruce]

2 hours ago, R C-R said:

In APub on my iMac, there is no assigned shortcut for that ... but I do not know if that is because I removed it or there is no default on Macs.

I think it is because you removed it. Next time you do a Cancel User Data check and see if it is back to that KitchenSink + R

I have changed it on my Mac to be Control + R

[RNKLN]

No shortcut on my Mac and I certainly didn't remove it (I double checked by assigning it Cmd+Alt+Shift+R, which I may had used for something else, but there's no duplicate assignment)

[thetasig]

Thanks, Walt for your tip on the View rotation. Very helpful!

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

[Roland0815]

same issue here! worst ux failure ever - how can you break with standards and then the proposed option nowhere to see on my mac  really enoying

[Marc Englund]

Yes, please, PLEASE fix this (make it configurable, preferably work the expected way by default).

Everything else I'm using on Mac has Command+Mouse wheel as zoom. 

Disabling ⌘-rotate only helps to avoid doing the mistake all the time (resetting rotation is annoying with a four-key "shortcut"), essentially damage control.

And for some reason, "Use mouse wheel to zoom" does nothing, so it's impossible to make it work as expected. 

For me, this is the main things that make Affinity feel clunky when you move over from other design tools, the opposite of the "yay, it just works as I expect it, no need to think" that has made tools like Sketch and Figma succeed. Otherwise _such a good tool_, but it always takes half the session to unlearn this expectation.

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Marc Englund said:

And for some reason, "Use mouse wheel to zoom" does nothing, so it's impossible to make it work as expected. 

That works fine for me on my Mac. Are you a Windows or Mac user?