# Zoom and view

- **Zoom in** and **Zoom out**: the View menu, keys Shift+Z and Z (xfig), or Ctrl+= and Ctrl+-. Ctrl+scroll and pinching also zoom.
- **Zoom to fit canvas** fits the whole drawing (Ctrl+Z with the physical Ctrl key, or Ctrl+0). **Unzoom** returns to actual size (Ctrl+1). **Zoom In** and **Zoom Out** (also `z` and Shift+Z) step by the square root of two as in xfig: 1, 1.41, 2, 2.83, 4, 5.66, 8, 11.3 and so on (Integer zoom rounds above 2). The indicator's Zoom button sets a value (with **Integer zoom**, Cancel and Set; command `view.set_integer_zoom`). Right-click the units box at the top for xfig's **Unit/Scale** panel (command `app.unit_panel`): Ruler units (imperial or metric), **Show fractions** (inches only; off shows tenths), Figure units (**Ruler units** or **User defined** with a name) and Figure scale (**Unity** or **User defined** with a factor); the name and factor are greyed unless user defined. **Set** (or Return) applies, **Cancel** discards. **View > Show vertex numbers** numbers the points of lines and splines in red, from 0 as xfig does.
- **Pan**: scroll, the buttons at the ends of the rulers (Shift pans five times as far), the arrow keys, or hold Space and drag. **Pan to origin** (Home) returns to the page's corner.
- **Zoom box**: hold Ctrl and click with the left button (Cmd on macOS), then drag and release, or click the opposite corner; the view zooms so the box fills the canvas, its top-left corner at the canvas corner. Right button or Escape cancels. While Ctrl is held the mouse indicator shows "Zoom area / Pan to origin / Unzoom": Ctrl+middle pans to the origin, Ctrl+right returns to 100 %. A zoom box cannot start while a tool is busy. On Linux and Windows Ctrl+click is therefore not the right button; use the real right button, Alt+click for the middle button or the two-button chord.
- **Redraw** (Meta+R, Ctrl+L) repaints the canvas.
- **Portrait/Landscape** turns the page (Meta+C).
- **Show page borders** draws the page's outline in light blue with the paper's name outside its lower-right corner (in multiple-page mode, from the Export or Print panel, the outline of every page); turned off, the whole canvas is paper, as in xfig; **Show depth manager** shows the list of depths with check boxes to hide or show each; **Show info balloons** turns tooltips on and off (the delay is a global setting); **Show line lengths** (Alt+L with xfig's keys) shows the dx / dy triangle with the lengths of its sides while a line is drawn or moved (the message panel always shows length, dx, dy and angle).
- The rulers show the cursor position. The units box shows the current units; click it for Set units (inches or centimetres, a scale for the drawing).
- **Document settings** has the units, paper size and orientation.