Please implement a zoom to selection option

[Benjamin Eltzner]

Hi, I would like to forward this feature request from the Debian bug tracking system. For the full bug report see:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739554

"another feature that would be nice to have in qpdfview is a "zoom to
selection" option (similar to the command found in xpdf).
This option could for instance be associated with the middle mouse
button: clicking with the middle mouse button somewhere on the document
page, holding the button pressed and dragging the mouse to another point
would highlight a rectangular area (for instance with a dashed rectangular
boundary or maybe by displaying the rectangular area in inverted colors);
releasing the middle mouse button would zoom to the selected area
(that is to say, it would treat the selected area as the "page" to
be shown in Page-size mode)."

I for one am very content with the existing methods of adjusting zoom, but if you have some spare time, now you know what would make at least one user happier. :-)

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Hello,

this seems like a sensible idea even though just mapping it to the middle mouse button will be hard to discover and I can already see that follow-up bug report about making it configurable on the horizon... :-) I'll look into it when I find the time. Patches welcome in any case... :-)

Best regards, Adam.

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Hello again,

just committed an implementation using dragging of the middle mouse button to trunk revision 1497. Could you build it and try it out? Thanks.

Best regards, Adam.

P.S.: It does not yet work correctly in multiple page layouts due to an older problem which I'll hopefully have fixed soon...

[Adam Reichold (adamreichold)]

Ok, also committed a fix for multiple-page layouts...