Show zoom percentage in Affinity Photo

[nickbatz]

1. I could swear I saw a display of the current zoom percentage, and I can't find it now. If I'm right, how do you get it to show?

2. What's the difference between zooming at 100% and at Actual Size? It doesn't take your screen resolution into account, right?

TIA

[R C-R]

59 minutes ago, nickbatz said:

I could swear I saw a display of the current zoom percentage, and I can't find it now.

In addition to the Navigation panel, if you enable the Status item on the main Toolbar it will show the zoom level as well.

[nickbatz]

RC-R has the answer I was looking for, but the other one is cool too.

Thanks!

[Pšenda]

7 hours ago, Ditto Bird said:

It's the Navigator.

There is no need to display the Navigator.

[Pšenda]

7 hours ago, nickbatz said:

What's the difference between zooming at 100% and at Actual Size?

100% - image pixel is monitor pixel, Actual Size - 1 cm on the document/image is 1 cm on the monitor.

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, Pšenda said:

There is no need to display the Navigator.

True, if (as I already mentioned) the Status option is enabled in the main toolbar. But some users may not have that option enabled, for instance if they are working on a small screen, so for them the Navigator panel would be an alternative.

[Pšenda]

57 minutes ago, R C-R said:

True, if (as I already mentioned) the Status option is enabled in the main toolbar. But some users may not have that option enabled, for instance if they are working on a small screen, so for them the Navigator panel would be an alternative.

As you've probably noticed, I'm responding to a post from a Windows user, where there's no need to set the Status - Zoom is simply displayed in the active window's panel. Apart from the obvious fact that I used part of "his" screenshot, and I wrote this information specifically to "him" - so any of your speculations about small monitors are completely irrelevant.

[Ditto Bird]

7 hours ago, Pšenda said:

There is no need to display the Navigator.

My apologies, I was trying to help with something I find very useful. I hid my response as I can't delete it. All the best.

[Pšenda]

2 minutes ago, Ditto Bird said:

My apologies, I was trying to help with something I find very useful. I hid my response as I can't delete it. All the best.

There is no need to hide the post - my recommendation only concerned the zoom factor. The Navigator is useful for other reasons as well.
There are more ways/paths (therefore they can be listed here, so that everyone can choose what suits them) - for example, the current Zoom factor and the option to set it is also be visible on the toolbar after selecting the Zoom tool.

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, Pšenda said:

As you've probably noticed, I'm responding to a post from a Windows user...

I was not sure if @Ditto Bird was a Mac or Windows user, but regardless since both Mac & Windows users might read this topic, I wanted to make it clear to Mac users of the alternate way to display the zoom level.

[nickbatz]

15 hours ago, Pšenda said:

100% - image pixel is monitor pixel, Actual Size - 1 cm on the document/image is 1 cm on the monitor.

I want to believe that. but it's hard to imagine that it knows the size of the screen - that is, the dot pitch at the resolution I have it set to.

In other words, it would have to know that my main monitor is 32" set to 3200 x 1800. If I set it to its native 4K (3840 x 2160) resolution, the picture would be quite a bit smaller.

What's more, it would have to know that I'm not viewing it on one of the two other monitors on my system, which are both set to 1080p resolution. And one of those monitors is a 16" Wacom tablet, the other a 40" 4K TV.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, nickbatz said:

I want to believe that. but it's hard to imagine that it knows the size of the screen - that is, the dot pitch at the resolution I have it set to.

Why? 

[nickbatz]

16 hours ago, R C-R said:

Why? 

Well, for the reasons I just wrote in the post before yours. The dot pitch is dependent on the physical size of the screen, and it doesn't know whether you're using a laptop or a giant TV.

[R C-R]

12 minutes ago, nickbatz said:

Well, for the reasons I just wrote in the post before yours. The dot pitch is dependent on the physical size of the screen, and it doesn't know whether you're using a laptop or a giant TV.

Have you tried it?

[nickbatz]

22 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Have you tried it?

No, but then that just puts it in a very large category of things I haven't tried because I'm quite certain of the outcome.

Anyway, it would be very difficult to test. The software I use to print (Canon Pro Print & Layout) scales the image to fit the paper size. There's probably a way around that, but I'm too lazy to see.

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, nickbatz said:

No, but then that just puts it in a very large category of things I haven't tried because I'm quite certain of the outcome.

Give it a shot anyway. You might be surprised at what the app 'knows' about the display. 😉

[DuncanL]

No calibration required - it "just works"

[nickbatz]

1 minute ago, DuncanL said:

No calibration required - it "just works"

 

No fair using sorcery...

[nickbatz]

You're right, it does work on my main monitor (although not on auxiliary ones).

Amazing, I'm actually wrong. This is the first time that's ever happened.

Thanks!

[DuncanL]

1 minute ago, nickbatz said:

You're right, it does work on my main monitor (although not on auxiliary ones).

Amazing, I'm actually wrong. This is the first time that's ever happened.

Thanks!

You're welcome.  The power of DDC at work.

[nickbatz]

1 hour ago, DuncanL said:

You're welcome.  The power of DDC at work.

Ah, that's interesting!

See? Even I didn't know everything (before this).