Zoom with scroll wheel / Pan with middle click
A lot of softwares have same useful navigation-shortcuts, which illustrator doesn't have;
Zoom = scroll wheel
pan = middle click
It is confusing, if you want to switch illustrator with other softwares (like autocad or even Photoshop).
It would be useful, If changing default setting is possible.
Hi Everyone,
We have added a preference to enable ‘Zoom with Mouse Wheel’. Go to Preferences→ General→ Enable ‘Zoom with Mouse Wheel’.
Also, now you can pan the doucment using the middle click of the mouse.
Both of these functionality are available since January 2021 release (version 25.1) onwards.
You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html
Thank you for all the feedback
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Anonymous commented
Pan is Space Bar + Left Click
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Ivraj Seerha commented
@Adobe Is anyone going to respond to this?
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fr10wi commented
I'm just in shock - the main tool of Adobe - Photoshop, and in Ai, the entire logic of the program was changed in relation to Ps - this is very inconvenient! Scroll wheel + Alt? What ?
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James commented
Wow! I can hardly believe AI doesn't have this! I will not buy the software without this function. I'm going to uninstall the trial.
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jon commented
Please add a setting to zoom with the scroll wheel without using Alt like photoshop
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Ash commented
Exactly like AutoCAD.
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Beau commented
Although I love the updates in Illustrator 2019, it would be really nice to get this functionality as an option like in photoshop or have MMB work like it does in AE.
Just in case anyone wanted the AHK script for MMB panning alone,
#SingleInstance ignore
#IfWinActive ahk_exe Illustrator.exe
{
;Middle Mouse Button activates hand tool dragging.
MButton::
Send, {Space down}{LButton down}
KeyWait, MButton
Send, {LButton up}{Space up}
Return
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Anonymous commented
Here's an AutoHotKey script to get this functionality for now, consider taking out the zoom functionality if it doesn't always work for you, but the MMB panning has always worked. You just have to have this script running in the background through AutoHotKey (download AHK if you haven't)
#SingleInstance ignore
#IfWinActive ahk_exe Illustrator.exe
{
;Switches Alt+Wheelup with Wheelup
Wheelup::
send !{Wheelup}
return;Switches Alt+Wheeldown with Wheeldown
Wheeldown::
send !{Wheeldown}
return;Middle Mouse Button activates hand tool dragging.
MButton::
Send, {Space down}{LButton down}
KeyWait, MButton
Send, {LButton up}{Space up}
Return
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Anonymous commented
I've used another vector software call Xara for years and it had middle mouse click pan which is hard to give up. It was so convenient.
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Anonymous commented
I agree with panning, not really with zooming by just using scroll
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Shake Narcis commented
About zooming with sroll wheel, if you keep pressed the ALT button (windows user) and scrolling the wheel of mouse it works.
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Christopher Clinton commented
How do you mean? Do you mean provide an option to change the zoom controls to be more like AutoCAD?
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Fulkrum commented
It has been a long request for which Adobe just answer: "Shut up losers, Fk U and keep paying your subscription!"...
Well, I'm a happy user of Affinity Designer now. FK U Adobe. -
Anonymous commented
Would definitely still be a welcomed change, but I'm not hopeful as this was asked for back in 2009.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/471730 -
Brenton commented
Anyone using AutoHotkey to add this functionality to Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC (zoom with mouse wheel, pan with middle or right click)? If so, how to set that up?
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TexyusGames commented
RIGHT Click for pan.
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TexyusGames commented
Pan = Right click.
Zoom = Mouse wheel.Why? Because they are most common, freakuent actions and most common actions need to be the simple ones.
Everyone will benefit from that. Features that will be useful for bigger amount of people should be priority.
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Jordi Vives commented
ADOBE After Effects has that, you only have to do a copy paste. For real Adobe... Zoom and Pan in Illustrators works more similar to MS Word than one of your best programs such as After Effects.
I can't understant how it's still working that way... Wake up! That's a must have!!
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You can surely use an AutoHotKey script (only for Windows) to get it work, like this article says (in Russian only, but it's not that hard to understand):
https://medium.com/@krasnovpro/гибкая-кастомизация-горячих-кнопок-в-приложениях-cc80816eb292
But if AI could allow this right from the fresh start, people would definitely use it. -
Carl Green commented
When this type of view navigation is as natural as breathing to you, any other way is frustrating to say the least. GET THIS DONE ADOBE!