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November 3, 2016
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Disable Illustrator cc 2017 zoom to selection?

  • November 3, 2016
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I've just updated my PC to the latest version of Illustrator, there is one feature that's bugging me, zoom to selection. I can see the appeal but i don't want it, it's disrupting my workflow, anyone know how to turn it off, when they introduced animated zoom, the GPU section of Preferences had a checkbox to disable it, I was hoping that zoom to selection may have a similar option, anyone know?

Thanks in advance!

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Correct answer DesTroyer

>>>SOLUTION<<<

In Illustrator CC 2018, Adobe finally fixed this by adding a check box under preferences Section & Anchor Display.  You can disable Zoom To Selection.  It is enabled by default.

69 replies

Participant
May 5, 2017

Daily user of Illustrator CC chiming in:

I really dislike this feature too, and strongly suggest making an option to disable it in the preferences.

benjaminl18498399
Participant
May 4, 2017

Holy shit, this feature makes me want to kill myself.

Ctrl++ was like a second nature to me. Having to hold alt and scroll is retarded. If we could just scroll to zoom and hold the middle mouse to pan, it would be great, but holding alt? Those devs are f****g st*pid. I wish I didn't have to use adobe illustrator.

Participant
April 29, 2017

This is the most annoying new feature from Adobe. Can someone please make a script to disable this functionality?

Participating Frequently
April 24, 2017

Dear Adobe, Support
for God's sake please disable this crappy function or at least give me the option to disable it in the settings.
P.S. I use cmd +  to zoom.

carlosgarro
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 19, 2017

PLEASE! Let us disable this "feature"!

Participant
April 19, 2017

Help! Adobe, this is messing with peoples' careers. Why no fix yet? Why do I pay $600 a year to Beta test new (often terrible) features? Adobe: If it's not broken, DON'T fix it. Or can I send you the bill for the HOURS I am wasting waiting for you to repair this feature that worked well for 15+ years... until you "improved" it for me?  @$#%&*!

georgew22530672
Participant
April 17, 2017

So frustrating!! Is there no way to disable this? Adobe please give the option to disable

Participating Frequently
April 19, 2017

This been fixed / going to be fixed yet. It's really annoying. I'm one of those that's been using the ctrl/cmd plus and minus for years, since Freehand MX! I can't get out of the habit and it's something that I shouldn't have to especially as I'm paying £45 per month for this junk!

Participant
April 3, 2017

Adobe have taken Flash's most annoying UX behaviour and put it in to Illustrator.... Say what?

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 3, 2017
antonioa35343141
Participant
March 30, 2017

The entire reason I landed on this page is that I was massively frustrated by this "feature"! Maybe I'm an edge case, but I am constantly creating ai files based on the total size of the available artboard. To put it another way, I'm creating files so large, I have to create 2 separate ai files, save them out as PDFs, and then stitch them together. So MY experience involves jumping from the very top left of the possible artboard, moving to the bottom right, and attempting to zoom in. I say attempting, because I am constantly yelling at my computer when I'm not going where I intend to go. This new "feature" does not work for users like me at all!

Participant
April 27, 2017

This is the answer I came looking for tonight. Thank you!

Participant
March 20, 2017

Seriously...this is driving me nuts.  I work on large murals.  My artboard us is usually 120" wide.  When working on a small detail I press Cntrl - to see a little more of the area and I am working on when I suddenly go flying to the center of the artboard.  Now I have to zoom all the way out and find where I was.  Super annoying.  I have been using Illustrator professionally for 16 years and old habbits (my workflow) die hard.

ananggadipa
Participating Frequently
February 10, 2017

This has been annoying for long time. The new update doesn't fix it.

Please make this optional feature, because everyone have different workflow.

I personally set custom shortcut: cmd+1: zoom out, cmd+ 2: zoom in. Since the new update it's hard to do that because I must unselect anything first (99% times I don't need to zoom to certain point).

ananggadipa
Participating Frequently
February 10, 2017

I don't know why but everytime I try to submit bug/feature request whan I click submit button it always error:

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2017

Did you try it from Illustrators Help menu?

Help > Submit Bug/Feature Request...