tschotsch Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Hi all, I am not sure whether this topic has been brought up before… a simple function from QuarkXpress which I missed over the years with Indesign and find worthy of implementation, especially when working with text, is to have hot key panning changed from using the spacebar to the command key. Or at least give the user the ability to change it themselves. this way one can pan while being zoomed in on text while it is highlighted. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 If you have a mouse with a middle scroll wheel, press down and hold it down. Then pan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschotsch Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share Posted February 3, 2019 No mouse with scroll wheel, not my forte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Bummer. I use it in several applications. QXP uses the alt/option key for enabling panning. Works well. But I still wish Quark would enable the scroll wheel method so I don't need to use a modifier key at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 (edited) This doesn't get you to where you want to be, but you can use the Navigator studio - Advanced settings - to create View Points which you can quickly switch between, with short-cut keys too if you want to use them. It's probably more useful in Designer than Publisher - the View Points are fixed to a single page/spread rather than being 'relative' across all pages/spreads - but I think it's a function worth knowing about. P.S. You can also use the Navigator for panning. Might be useful for what you need to do. Edited February 4, 2019 by GarryP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschotsch Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 Hey GarryP, all good points but I just think that using the command key or as MikeW suggested above, the alt/option key, would be a simple hack to make ones life a little easier and I do believe way more intuitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Yeah, that's absolutely fine. Just thought I'd give some other existing options in case anyone might like to know about them. Personally I don't use the Navigator much but I probably should get to know it better myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschotsch Posted February 4, 2019 Author Share Posted February 4, 2019 You bet GerryP I appreciate your input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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