[Solved] Drawing a zoom box

[Albannach247]

OOo Draw seems to have two ways to zoom:

1. By using the Zoom toolbar, which has six zoom tools listed by default.
2. By using View/Zoom, which has five.

The only two ways listed under both methods are Optimal and 100%. By using Tools/Customize/Toolbars, I can add Zoom Previous and Zoom Next to the toolbar. But what I don't see is how to zoom by drawing a box around whatever I want to look at more closely. I can get approximately the same result by repeatedly using Zoom In, but this is tedious, and limited to factors of 2. Using View/Zoom/Variable lets me pick a percentage, but not a specific area of the drawing to zoom into. Drawing a zoom box is the tool I have used most often in other drawing programs, and its apparent absence from OOo Draw is frustrating. I have poked around the site to see if there is an area for making suggestions for future enhancements, but I don't see one. Is there such an area that I just haven't found?

[Zizi64]

Hi,

If I understand your problem exactly: you can select one or more object(s) and can zoom to them by the "zoom object(s)": (It resizes the display to fit the object(s) you selected)

You can not zoom to an empty area by this methode. (and you can not select an empty area...)


A workaround idea:
1. You need draw a rectangle with same area, as you want zoom in,
2. zoom to rectangle object,
3. then delete the rectangle.
(you can create a macro for the second and third step.)

[acknak]

...what I don't see is how to zoom by drawing a box around whatever I want to look at more closely.

Click on the zoom tool in the toolbar, then click the icon with the "+" (top left). Now, drag out a rectangle over the drawing--Draw will zoom to that rectangle when you release the mouse button.

[Tutorial] Reporting bugs or suggestions

[Zizi64]

Wow!
I learned something new again.
Thanks!

It works with LibreOffice too.

[Albannach247]

Thank you. That does it perfectly. I had just been clicking on the drawing after selecting "+", and that's when it zoomed in by a factor of 2. It hadn't occurred to me that the same tool could be used prior to drawing a box.

[arthurpgoldberg]

In OO 4.1.1 draw a rectangle and then click 'object zoom'. Nifty!