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Is there an "official" explanation of "New View" and "Views" under the top View menu? I can kind of see what they're about just by playing with them but I wonder if there are nuances I haven't found. I found the help video about View Points but nothing about View>Views.

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Maybe i´m to foolish to see the advantage but its quiet useless: Its just for a "safe" state of zoom/navigating focus.

Neither grid on/off or show/hide rulers or gudies, or layer-focus... is independent - just the zoom???

So yeah, what is the benefit for this?

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I would not overthink these 2 commands but it's useful if you have a second screen which you can keep zoomed to 100% whilst zooming in on your main screen to do some delicate work and then seeing the results in real time on your second screen.

Could also be useful for presentations (e.g. In a classroom/office)

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Multiple views can be put to good use even if you have only one screen, although it helps if it is large one. For Macs, you can use Windows menu > Separated mode to see two (or more) views of the same file at different zoom levels at the same time on your monitor. Why is this useful? Consider this screenshot where I have applied a 1 px Live Gaussian Blur to the document:

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Because the chalk lane marker is fuzzy to begin with, in the 'zoom to fit' view on the right the blurring is almost unnoticeable, while it is easy to see its effect in the zoomed in view on the left. With the two views I could see the effect of changing the blur radius simultaneously on both the chalk outline & the overall image without having to zoom in & out if I had only a single view to work with.

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The above explanations were helpful, but it also would be useful to be able to go back to recent views, especially if one had the shortcut option to do this. I am working on various parts of a large map on an iMac Pro and having to find which screen is which takes time, even if I leave a little part of each screen visible. Being able to go to different views on the same screen would be much easier. Now I simply use the Mac' Spaces and put different views on different spaces (two or three). That works but it is hard on the eyes going back and forth.

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19 minutes ago, Jim Monson said:

The above explanations were helpful, but it also would be useful to be able to go back to recent views, especially if one had the shortcut option to do this. I am working on various parts of a large map on an iMac Pro and having to find which screen is which takes time, even if I leave a little part of each screen visible. Being able to go to different views on the same screen would be much easier. Now I simply use the Mac' Spaces and put different views on different spaces (two or three). That works but it is hard on the eyes going back and forth.

You might try this:

  1. Go to the Navigator studio panel, and enable Advanced mode: image.png.b922124cd45df55772e6a062fac89c3b.png
     
  2. That will add a settings icon at the bottom right of the panel, with an Add option:
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  3. Using Add will setup a new viewpoint, at the location currently shown in the Navigator panel, and its zoom level.
  4. Thereafter, you can select a viewpoint from the list at the bottom of the navigator. You can have as many as you want, and switch between them using the navigator.

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11 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Thereafter, you can select a viewpoint from the list at the bottom of the navigator. You can have as many as you want, and switch between them using the navigator.

This also works with the View menu > Move to Previous View Point and the Move to Next View Point menu items, which means you can assign custom keyboard shortcuts to those two items so you do not have to pop open any menu to cycle through your viewpoints. (I tried Shift-Option-N & Shift-N because they do not conflict with any of my other AP shortcuts.)

At least on my Mac these two menu options won't work until I select one of the added viewpoints first, but after that they will.

If the Navigator panel is open & in the advanced mode, the viewpoint name at the bottom of the panel updates on each move-to-viewpoint command, so if they are named appropriately it is easy to tell at a glance which is the current one. Also, maybe because of the shortcuts I used, the key repeat feature kicks in if I hold down the shortcut keys, which makes it easy to (almost too) quickly cycle through a long list of viewpoints.

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The above tips have been very useful. Thanks. Now I wish that Affinity could add he option of having the actual view icon box disappear and only show the list of views. I combine various panels as much as possible and arrange them on my screen, but rather than clicking to show the Navigator, to take up less real estate it would be very useful to just have the list of views, even though I have reduced the Navigator to be as small as possible.That is, adding an option in the Navigator to show the full panel or only the list of views. This would be very neat and unobtrusive.

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