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There is an ingenious cool feature in other software (unfortunately developed by some evil, greedy corporation you should avoid), called the "Bird's eye view". Nobody really talks/knows about this feature much, but it is really cool!

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Here is an article about how it works: https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/photoshop-birds-eye-view-tutorial/

Basically, when in Hand tool, you hold the H + LeftMouse and the view zooms out to show your whole document. Then you can move your cursor somewhere else and release the keys and it will drop you right there with the previous zoom level. 

This allow you to "eject to the skies and land somewhere else like Iron Man" very quickly! This would be extremely handy when working on UI design, where I often need to compare/copy many different Artboards' elements!

I think in Affinity this could work even with a Spacebar + MiddleMouseClick shortcut (or RightMouse for Mac users), because so far this combo does not do anything anyways!

So far I am using the Navigator to move around, which is great, but the Bird's eye view would be faster to work with.

 

Thanks for consideration. You guys are doing amazing job with Affinity!

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