Custom Default zoom?

Dorico
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I don’t find a way to set the default Zoom to 125% (or any custom %…)

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No, you can’t do that at present. This is a good idea, though, so I’ll make a note of it for the future.

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Thanks for adding this to the list, Daniel. I’ll second that this would be a welcome addition. I’ve discovered that 168% on my computer is almost exactly life-sized. I’d love to be able to open up to that by default!

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Thanks for looking into this. This is my thought: preset zooms are fine with me as long as the custom zoom I set i.e. 180 stays there. If I need to go to 400 in the presets the custom zoom changes to 400 and I have to reenter 180 in custom. Can you make it so the custom zoom I enter doesn’t change when going back and forth to presets? or better yet have a choice of several custom zoom levels in the custom zoom section.

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Welcome to the forum, TrackOne. We tried to make the custom zoom dialog as quick and simple as possible to use: you should find that you can type Alt+Z 180 Return to zoom to 180% without any muss or fuss: if that’s a little sequence you haven’t yet committed to memory it might be worth it.

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I was looking this up right now to see if it was possible. Not only would a default zoom be very helpful (my monitor prefers the 257% scale), but also if I could make the “Z” and “X” commands a default “zoom in” and “zoom out” ratio.

For example, if pressing “X” would be -5% of the current zoom percentage. Currently, pressing “X” zooms me out to 400% which is always way too aggressive.

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