Zoom out < 1%

[Bug Importer]

In 0.43, it is not possible to zoom out to less than a
1% zoom level.

It is a limitation for imported SVG (I've got a big one
which was converted from a DXF file) which may be
designed in a scale too big to be viewed in inkscape.

It would be nice to allow a zoom leve less than 1%.

[Molumen (molumen)]

Do you have an example of such a file? And could you upload
it here?

Thanks!

[Buliabyak-users (buliabyak-users)]

Inkscape has the lowest minimum zoom among all vector apps I
know. And some people are still not satisfied! :)

[naught101 (naught101)]

for example a large architectural project, which covers 500
meters by 500 meters, that would meaneven at one percent,
you need a screed 5x5 meters in size.

I agree completely. simply converting the zoom level from an
interger to a floatingpoint number would fix this, I'd imagine.

ned

[Buliabyak-users (buliabyak-users)]

Zoom level is not an integer, of course (it's just displayed
rounded to the closest percent). And it cannot be unlimited.
You won't find a single program where it's unlimited. This
is simply impossible to implement, you will run into too
many issues if you try it. There will always be limits. Even
if we increase these limits to accommodate your use case,
tomorrow another user will come and demand another increase.
This is not the way to deal with it. Simply draw your
500x500 m file in a 1:100000 scale and you won't need insane
zoom levels.

[naught101 (naught101)]

buliabyak, nearly all architectural CAD drawings are done in
1:1, then scaled for printing. it make sense to operate this
way. and it's especially important if you didn't draw the
cad file in the first place, as there is no way to scale a
selection to an exact ratio in inkscape (perhaps that's
another request?)

if what you say is correct, that the zoom level is NOT an
integer, then why round it? I mean, sure, round it to a
couple of decimal places to display it in the zoom level
box, but don't round it for the actual zoom.

a zoom level of 0.0001 would be good for nearly all
architectural projects (allowing about 200x140 meters on the
smallest screen). I don't see that that is extremely hard to
accomodate. if you're worried about users not understanding
this, perhaps there could be a zoom limiting option in the
inkscape preferences?

[Horkana-users (horkana-users)]

see also
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1437286&group_id=93438&atid=604309

I'm very tempted to close this one in favour of the later
report which is not anonymous.

[Horkana-users (horkana-users)]

Perhaps the DXF importer should have an option to
resize/rescale 1 metre to 1 cm to make the documents more
managable?

[naught101 (naught101)]

it would be better to change the value of "1mm" to "1metre",
essentially doing the dame thing (dividing all values by
1000), but keeping the real measurements, if you get what
I'm saying

[Dženan Zukić (dzenanz)]

I also needed this capability recently.

[Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger)]

Hi, this isue has been reported to Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/2626
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/jhofinger