When working on product pages or other detailed designs, I often need to check how a specific area looks at 100% zoom on my monitor.
The current View > Actual Size (Ctrl + 1) command always moves the view to the center of the artboard. As a result, every time I use it, I have to manually navigate back to the area I was working on. This makes checking the actual display size unnecessarily inconvenient.
I would like Illustrator to provide either a preference that allows View > Actual Size (Ctrl + 1) to preserve the current viewport instead of jumping to the center of the artboard, or a separate command that changes the zoom level to 100% while keeping the current viewport so users can assign their own keyboard shortcut to it.
There are workarounds, but none of them are practical. Double-clicking the Zoom Tool changes the zoom to 100% while preserving the current viewport, but this action cannot be assigned to a keyboard shortcut within Illustrator. Setting the zoom level to 100% from the Navigator panel or the zoom percentage control at the bottom of the document window also preserves the viewport, but these actions cannot be assigned to a keyboard shortcut either. Recording these actions as an Action is not possible because Illustrator does not record them.
A third-party macro is also not a reliable solution. If I switch screen modes with the F key or hide and show panels with the Tab key, the UI layout changes, causing mouse position-based macros to become unreliable.
Having an official command or preference that changes the zoom level to 100% without changing the current viewport would make checking designs at their actual display size much faster and more convenient.
LeeSeok
When working on product pages or other detailed designs, I often need to check how a specific area looks at 100% zoom on my monitor.
The current View > Actual Size (Ctrl + 1) command always moves the view to the center of the artboard. As a result, every time I use it, I have to manually navigate back to the area I was working on. This makes checking the actual display size unnecessarily inconvenient.
I would like Illustrator to provide either a preference that allows View > Actual Size (Ctrl + 1) to preserve the current viewport instead of jumping to the center of the artboard, or a separate command that changes the zoom level to 100% while keeping the current viewport so users can assign their own keyboard shortcut to it.
There are workarounds, but none of them are practical. Double-clicking the Zoom Tool changes the zoom to 100% while preserving the current viewport, but this action cannot be assigned to a keyboard shortcut within Illustrator. Setting the zoom level to 100% from the Navigator panel or the zoom percentage control at the bottom of the document window also preserves the viewport, but these actions cannot be assigned to a keyboard shortcut either. Recording these actions as an Action is not possible because Illustrator does not record them.
A third-party macro is also not a reliable solution. If I switch screen modes with the F key or hide and show panels with the Tab key, the UI layout changes, causing mouse position-based macros to become unreliable.
Having an official command or preference that changes the zoom level to 100% without changing the current viewport would make checking designs at their actual display size much faster and more convenient.