nwhit Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 When exporting in all prior versions, I could go to the export window/dialog and immediately zoom the preview in and out with a CMD+ or -. However, in beta 1736 on all of the apps it appears that when opening the dialog, because it is defaulting the cursor to the initial field, the only way to get the zoom is to tab away from any field where entry is required. Never had that requirement in past versions and it's a real PITA, especially because you're not sure how many fields you need to tab through in order to get the zooming to work again. Hopefully it can be restored to work as before. Thanks. Quote -------------------- New: 2023 Mac Studio M2 MAX 12-Core CPU/38-Core GPU 64GB Memory • 5k Studio Display • Sonoma Prev: 2020 iMac 27 i7 (5k Rez), 72GB, AMD Radeon Pro 5700XT 16GB • Sonoma MacBook Pro, 13", M1 2020 • 16 GB • macOS Sonoma iPad Air 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 Hmm, I can't get it to zoom the preview at all now. I think it's great that the cursor is now in a text field when the dialog opens but I can't get the cursor out of the fields to zoom the preview like I could in 2.0.4. Perhaps adding discrete zoom +/- controls would help. I bet most people don't even know the preview can be zoomed. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 On Windows you can just click on the preview Window then the + & - keys work Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwhit Posted April 4, 2023 Author Share Posted April 4, 2023 3 hours ago, MikeTO said: Perhaps adding discrete zoom +/- controls would help. I bet most people don't even know the preview can be zoomed. Yes, always thought that the zoom for preview wasn't implemented very well. Back when it was first introduced, took me awhile to figure out how to use it. 3 hours ago, carl123 said: On Windows you can just click on the preview Window then the + & - keys work That doesn't work for Mac, sadly. Quote -------------------- New: 2023 Mac Studio M2 MAX 12-Core CPU/38-Core GPU 64GB Memory • 5k Studio Display • Sonoma Prev: 2020 iMac 27 i7 (5k Rez), 72GB, AMD Radeon Pro 5700XT 16GB • Sonoma MacBook Pro, 13", M1 2020 • 16 GB • macOS Sonoma iPad Air 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted April 5, 2023 Staff Share Posted April 5, 2023 Hi nwhit, I've just tried this in the upcoming 1742 and wasn't able to reproduce the issue you were seeing. I then tried 1736 (which is what you're currently using) and was able to reproduce the issue. So it looks like its been fixed in the upcoming build! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwhit Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 Just updated to 1742 and the problem is still there. The cursor is defaulting to the first input box/field, thus requiring tabbing an unknown number of times (depending on the app) in order to allow a zoom of the preview. Also tried to simply click on the preview in order to allow zooming but that doesn't work. As mentioned before, don't have this issue in v2. Seems to have been introduced in the 2.1 betas. Update: Just tested 2.0.4 and can see the difference. In this version (and earlier), the focus of the cursor when opening the Export dialog is on the type of export dropdown, which allows the CMD+/- zooming to work. Beta 2.1 opens the dialog with the cursor focus on one of the input fields (such as Size, etc.), which blocks zooming. Quote -------------------- New: 2023 Mac Studio M2 MAX 12-Core CPU/38-Core GPU 64GB Memory • 5k Studio Display • Sonoma Prev: 2020 iMac 27 i7 (5k Rez), 72GB, AMD Radeon Pro 5700XT 16GB • Sonoma MacBook Pro, 13", M1 2020 • 16 GB • macOS Sonoma iPad Air 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 On 4/5/2023 at 5:25 AM, Sean P said: I've just tried this in the upcoming 1742 and wasn't able to reproduce the issue you were seeing. I then tried 1736 (which is what you're currently using) and was able to reproduce the issue. So it looks like its been fixed in the upcoming build! Like nwhit, I can still reproduce it in 1742 on Ventura. I think the reason you weren't able to reproduce it is the dialog doesn't initialize the same way each time it's opened. Here are some steps to reproduce it. Start Publisher fresh. Create a doc and draw a rectangle. Choose Export and then choose TIFF A blue focus rectangle will be around the Width field. Press Cmd+ and it should give you a system beep. Press Cmd- and it enters a - into the field. Press Tab and Height will now have a blue focus rectangle. Press Cmd+/- and the same results as above will occur. Press Esc to close the dialog and then choose Export again. The blue focus rectangle will be around Height instead of Width. Collapse and then expand the File Settings group. Now neither field will have a blue focus rectangle and the Cmd+/- shortcuts will work correctly. Press Esc to close the dialog and then choose Export again. Neither field will have a blue focus rectangle and the shortcuts can be used properly. Exporting to PDF is similar except it's combo boxes instead of text fields but the same trick of collapsing and expanding the group will remove focus from the combo box so that you can use the shortcuts. Sean P 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted April 11, 2023 Staff Share Posted April 11, 2023 Thank you both! I have now replicated this and passed it onto development. nwhit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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