Inkscape

fit (shrink) canvas to page

Bug #1614814 reported by Ryo Furue
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Bug Description

This is a feature request, not a bug report. I tried to find how to mark my report as such, but failed.

I wish there were a quick toggle to shrink the canvas to the page. What I envision is this: Click on a button or something and the canvas shrinks to the page. You are no longer able to scroll out of the page. Click on the same button, and the canvas expands to the original size and you can draw some objects outside the page.

Why do I want this? 1) Because I rarely draw objects outside the page and 2) because a canvas larger than the page is a bit annoying because you need a finer control on scrolling. To explain the latter point, I often zoom into a part of the page and draw something, but when I scroll up and down, I accidentally go off the page and get "lost" in the big canvas.

Tags: wishlist
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Hachmann (marenhachmann) wrote :

Does the 'zoom to page' shortcut help? (Numpad 5, see also https://inkscape.org/en/doc/keys091.html#d0e830 )

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Ryo Furue (furue) wrote :

Thank you for your comment!

> Does the 'zoom to page' shortcut help?

Yes, it does, to return to your plot when you get lost. But that doesn't invalidate the wish for limiting the canvas.

a) You still need some "finesse" in scrolling to avoid getting out of the page.
b) Zoom to page changes the zoom level, and once you did that, you have to go to the region of the page you had been editing before getting lost and to zoom in again.

As to point (b), if scrolling out of the page weren't allowed, you would be stuck at one of the page edges and so it's a lot easier to go back to the objects you were editing.

In a related note, how can one set one's default canvas size? I rarely use a page larger than A4 and so it makes little sense that the canvas defaults to such a large region.

Sorry if my responses are off the mark a bit: Currently I've been home and don't have inkscape right now.

Martin Owens (doctormo)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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