Hello,
for better usability and accessibility I would like to set the zoom in CorelDraw 2019 a little bit less huge, so the inital steps from the whole image are for me too large. I would like to set smaller percentages in zoom for each mouse wheel step. I think in 2024 it's there, but in 2019 sadly not.
So perhaps I could add a line as a switch in the settings.ini of my CorelDraw 2019 in the AppData?
There is a chapter [Zoom Tool] perhaps it's possible to add there something?
Or any other hint to customize the zoom speed / steps in CorelDraw 2019?
I use other tools - not the scroll wheel - for navigating within the page in CorelDRAW. I think that is a habit that I acquired from using CAD software years ago, before scroll wheels even existed.
I often use CorelDRAW's "Zoom One-Shot" command, which lets me perform a single marquee zoom to a specific area, then returns to whatever tool I was using before that.
When I want to see the big picture again, I zoom to page.
When I am zoomed in on a specific area, I sometimes use Pan from the middle mouse button, which, again, automatically returns me to whatever tool was active before.
I also use macros for certain types of navigation. See my Zoom to Selection Plus and Saved View Areas.
My workflow involves using only a few navigation tools, having a couple of them assigned to auxiliary buttons on my mouse, having a couple of others assigned to convenient keyboard shortcuts, and then having them become "muscle memory" so that I can navigate smoothly without thinking about it.
thank you very much. This zoom topic is quite important to me concerning usability / accessibility. I am used from other tools to zoom in a relaxed way in and out, just what "zooming" means to me. I don't need a smooth zoom without any steps, of course, but when I use a mouse wheel I do this because of a certain "analog" feeling of zooming.
Yes, there are workarounds of course like just using a mouse click on a function. (I don't find the one-shoot option in my 2019). But still the zoom is one thing that makes working a little bit harder in CorelDraw. Nice that Corel understood and added the option - when exactly, just in 2024 or before?
Your makros are very interesting, but not the zoom as I mentioned it. My initial thought was that there was an option perhaps already implemented in 2019 and to be activated by an ini file, but that does not seem the case.
I am not sure whether a makro could change the mouse wheel behaviour at all, and starting with Corel?
you can try setting up your mouse ...
some mice allow this ... Microsoft mousehttps://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/how-do-i-configure-application-specific-settings-for-a-microsoft-device-e4e7ba40-c27c-89e9-613c-2ad00c1d3bbb
You can assign buttons/keys to perform different commands in different programs. For example, you can assign the same button/key to activate Digital Ink when in PowerPoint, a macro when in a game, and the Magnifier when in any other application.
Thank you, I tested this with the global Windows setting for the mouse scroll step, it did not change the behaviour in Corel. And screen magnifier is not a real option :).
Well I guess I have to deal with it or update.
maybe a simple macro with a coefficient? :)
Sub Zin()Dim zl As Doublezl = ActiveWindow.ActiveView.ZoomActiveWindow.ActiveView.Zoom = zl + zl * 0.05End SubSub ZOUT()Dim zl As Doublezl = ActiveWindow.ActiveView.ZoomActiveWindow.ActiveView.Zoom = zl - zl * 0.05End Sub
with key assignments
Yes, a good idea, but we need in the CorelDraw options the way to assign "wheel up" and "wheel down" to those macros then :).
well after all, when I think about it, I just wanted the Shift+Wheel as the normal zoom without Shift. Because this zoom is just better for me.
Only one small key but such a huge difference and difficulty :).