Trouble zooming with apple magic mouse on OSX

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arsenius
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Trouble zooming with apple magic mouse on OSX

Postby arsenius » Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:50 am

I'm using an apple magic mouse on OS X 10.8.5. I find that I can pan around the document just fine, but when I use ctrl+drag to zoom in or out it goes much too quickly. I frequently end up zoomed so far out I can't see my image at all. The feature is almost unusable for me.

I have tried playing with the inkscape settings under scrolling, but they don't seem to help the problem. Has anyone else experienced this? Are there other settings I might try adjusting? I don't have this problem on my windows machine with a generic scroll mouse.

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GAngus
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Re: Trouble zooming with apple magic mouse on OSX

Postby GAngus » Wed Oct 09, 2013 3:27 am

Yeah, same OSX configuration here, and scrolling is less than smooth also.
Using the zoom tool is more controllable for me.
I would think there should be a preference for zoom speed but there is not.

There are a lot of discussions in the Apple forums regarding the Magic Mouse and it's shortcomings.
So, it could at least partially be Apples fault too.


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