Shortcut for "Fit view to 100% zoom and center selected Element"

[Olli O]

Pressing ctrl + 1 document zooms to 100%.
Is there a shortcut to zoom to 100% and center the view to the selected Element?

I think this should be the default behaviour when pressing ctrl +1

[GarryP]

1 hour ago, Olli O said:

I think this should be the default behaviour when pressing ctrl +1

I disagree, unless I’ve misunderstood your specification.

It might be nice if there were an option to zoom and centre at the same time when Ctrl+1 is used (maybe Shift+Ctrl+1, perhaps?) but I don’t think it should only do this every time Ctrl+1 is used as that would spoil existing workflows which rely on the way it currently works.

For example, when touching-up photos it’s useful to be able to zoom in/out while looking at the same part of the image, and centring the image each time would hinder that process with extra scrolling required on each zoom.

[Olli O]

yes, you are right

I am looking at this from a webdesign perspective where 100% zoom ist the "final look". In print you do not have a specific final zoom.
It would be most useful if you could set the shortcut yourself

[Pšenda]

28 minutes ago, Olli O said:

I am looking at this from a webdesign perspective where 100% zoom ist the "final look". In print you do not have a specific final zoom.

I think that any final look/final zoom is completely irrelevant here.
As GarryP writes, the problem is the size of the image, where its constant "centering" in a situation where adjustments are made on the edges of the image would be maddening.

[Olli O]

On 4/25/2023 at 2:01 PM, Pšenda said:

I think that any final look/final zoom is completely irrelevant here.
As GarryP writes, the problem is the size of the image, where its constant "centering" in a situation where adjustments are made on the edges of the image would be maddening.

I am talking about affinity designer, not Photo

[GarryP]

32 minutes ago, Olli O said:

I am talking about affinity designer, not Photo

Until now no-one has mentioned a particular application, but, in this specific case, I would say that all of the applications in the suite should work the same way for reasons of consistency.

I think the same argument as I gave above applies to all of the Affinity applications: Nice to have an option to zoom either way, but forcing a replacement of the existing result of zooming with the other would harm some existing workflows.

[fde101]

You can accomplish the equivalent of this with Zoom To Selection (Shift+Command+0 on the Mac) followed by Zoom to 100% (Command+1 on the Mac).

You can currently use an external macro utility to automate that (use one user-defined shortcut to send those to the app in sequence).

Once scripting is available this should in theory be a trivial thing to automate using a script within the Affinity apps themselves.