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February 23, 2017
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Anyone figured out a way to zoom with scroll wheel in Illustrator yet?

  • February 23, 2017
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I've been a photoshop user for many years & I'm just now making the jump to illustrator again. Photoshop has the option to zoom with only the scroll wheel & I've really gotten used to to that workflow. I find myself constantly trying to zoom in using only the scroll wheel in illustrator and its becoming a difficult task to retrain my brain to work this way. Can anyone shed light on a workaround or fix to this request?

解決に役立った回答 Mattgarrett

Preferences > General > Zoom With Mouse Wheel

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Participant
July 28, 2021

Edit>Preferences>General>Zoom with mouse wheel

 

Works like a charm!!

Mattgarrett解決!
Participant
June 8, 2021

Preferences > General > Zoom With Mouse Wheel

Participant
June 15, 2021

THIS! Thank you! So easy!

Participant
October 27, 2020

I assume many landed here looking for "thumb scroll zoom" on illustrator on windows. If that is the case, try "edit>preferences>General> tick "force enable pinch-to-zoom on touchpad". that should do the trick

andyl95800167
Participant
April 17, 2019

If you're on a Mac with SteerMouse, you can map the scroll buttons to the "cmd +" and "cmd -" keystrokes.  That will zoom in and out at from the cursor location, unless you have an object selected. Then it will scroll with that object as the center.

Participating Frequently
May 14, 2018

So here's a method that works for PC users, but Adobe really should just get an option for this.  Usually when there's a functionality problem that seems simple I usually assume Adobe doesn't implement them because 'business reasons', but this just doesn't make sense.

Here's the autohotkey script I made for Illustrator to add 'hand tool' with middle mouse button and effectively switches Alt+Scroll and regular scroll (and these mods only apply when illustrator is the focused window).  You can download the .exe here Illustrator_Scrolling_MMB.exe - Google Drive and run it when you open illustrator (close in system tray), or if you (reasonably) don't trust downloading some dude's random executable, just download autohotkey (https://autohotkey.com/), right-click on desktop and add new Autohotkey script, right-click and click 'Edit Script' and paste this code into the script.  Save it and run the script when you open illustrator.  You can close the program in your system tray.  If there are any issues let me know.

#SingleInstance ignore

#IfWinActive ahk_exe Illustrator.exe

{

;Switches Alt+Wheelup with Wheelup

Wheelup::

send !{Wheelup}

return

;Switches Alt+Wheeldown with Wheeldown

Wheeldown::

send !{Wheeldown}

return

;Middle Mouse Button activates hand tool dragging.

MButton::

Send, {Space down}{LButton down}

KeyWait, MButton

Send, {LButton up}{Space up}

Return

}

honorm76400537
Known Participant
August 9, 2018

"just download autohotkey right-click on desktop and add new Autohotkey script, right-click and click 'Edit Script' and paste this code into the script.  Save it and run the script when you open illustrator."

I can barely "code" CSS (I know how funny calling CSS "code" must be to people who can actually code) but I'm by golly gonna learn this. Thank you.

One question, though - you mean you have to run it every time you run/launch Illustrator?

Participating Frequently
August 9, 2018

"you mean you have to run it every time you run/launch Illustrator?"

If you don't have it set to start running the script on startup, then yes.

However if you create a shortcut to that script and place that shortcut in

C:\Users\"your username"\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup  folder (or run (Win+R) and type "shell:startup" to get to this folder) then the script should start when you log in.  You should see it running in your system tray.  The functions will only be active when illustrator is the active window (thus the #IfWinActive ahk_exe Illustrator on line 2) so you shouldn't have to worry about the Alt+scroll happening when you're in any other window.

  AutoHotKey is a great tool, and I definitely recommend learning it considering it is very easy to learn and immediately get use out of it, plus it has been around for a while so the forum has pretty much every question you could ask answered.  If you want functionality that isn't offered in any program, this is a to get what you want.

lol I haven't even touched CSS since high school so you got me on that.

Participating Frequently
February 3, 2018

Why in the name of God would Adobe remove the ability to zoom by simply using the scroll wheel without having to press a key?! It is bad enough that in both photoshop and illustrator boot up initially without the ability to zoom using the scroll wheel alone and I have to hunt the internet in order to find out how to do it. Now they have taken that ability completely away in Illustrator.

Just about every paint/graphics program I have ever used in the last 25 years uses the darn scroll wheel to zoom!!!!!

I know Adobe has worked extremely hard to make their programs of the highest professional calibre. Yet they also seem to work extremely hard to make their programs the most confusing and cumbersome to use! I just don't get it!

Strangedream
Participant
May 14, 2018

I agree.  That is how I found myself on this forum in the first place.  I'm just sitting down to use illustrator for the first time in months and thought to myself about ten minutes in after hopelessly scrolling in vain a dozen times that they HAVE to have updated AI by now to allow for scrolling to zoom, but apparently not.  Sigh.

MichaelCluff
Participating Frequently
January 9, 2018

I find this deeply frustrating. I often create graphics in AI to use in PowerPoint presentations. I have to remind myself to Alt-Scroll in AI and Ctrl-Scroll when I switch to PowerPoint. AAAAAARRRGGGH.

One neat workaround I just configured: bought a Logitech MX Ergo mouse, and I can tell the Logitech Options app to assign in AI the Page Forward mouse key to Alt. Then I can assign in PowerPoint the same button to Ctrl. Same gesture --> same action.

NOTE: using Logitech Options to assign "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" to buttons won't work, because that actually maps to scroll left/right -- BECAUSE EVERY OTHER PROGRAM IN THE UNIVERSE SCROLLS IN/OUT with CTRL!

Participant
August 29, 2017

Not sure why this isn't a basic option in Preferences. Going up and down on an artboard is useless to me. I don't use Illustrator for word processing, which is the only reason I can imagine where scrolling up and down is useful. Illustrator is graphics software, so zooming in and out with the scroll wheel makes way more sense. I use Inkscape at home, which does allow zooming with the scroll wheel.

S_Gans
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 23, 2017

Hi, using a Mac with a recently upgraded GPU. In Preferences>GPU Performance, checked it on, and then checked Animated Zoom. Option+Scroll Wheel works perfectly for zoom in this configuration. I don't have access to my Windows installation right now, but perhaps that preference exists on that platform as well? If so, you'd then Alt+Scroll

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Mike_Gondek10189183
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 23, 2017

Just hold down the option key and  zoom scroll work on mac, does for me on Yosemite and 2015.3.

I think they got rid of that option under general in Photoshop. My Photoshop 2017 works with just the alt key down.

The animated zoom has nothing to do with the scroll wheel on your mouse.

If you need more help you really need to tell us what version you are on, as these keys is changing.

DePascalis
Known Participant
December 5, 2018

OH! That clarifies things! I'm afraid I can't come up with a way to do that as a user. I do know that some coders have altered some of the app's dependent files to alter the mouse behavior, but that's out of my purview. I have to imagine that the easy-zoom function exists in the programs you're used it is because they have a LOT of 3D capability. And, although Illustrator has some, it's not so much "about" that 3D work. So, I guess they assume that most users would want the scroll to work for the majority of 2D users, with the alternative of using Alt. I agree - it'd be very handy for users with your needs, to have the ability to turn that option on and off.

Seems like this request is a perfect feature request! If enough users back you with the request (I'd send one in, too), perhaps they'll add that as a preference setting for people who want it. The form is found at: Feature Request/Bug Report Form


S_Gans  wrote

I do know that some coders have altered some of the app's dependent files to alter the mouse behavior

With "dependent files", do you mean files not provided by Adobe?

Do you have an example on when this has been done, can you point to files that are modifiable without the source code? If you don't, do you know any of these "coders" that maybe could give a better answer to this? I would really appreciate if you could point me in the right direction.

Mike_Gondek10189183
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 23, 2017

What platform are you on?

Does  Alt/option D & scroll wheel work for you?

Participant
November 11, 2021

Yes that works - but whilst I thank you for it - to adobe I say what the hell were you thinking - hardly a quick key approach is it?

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 12, 2021

You've probably noticed that this thread is an older one. So you might want to consider opening Preferences > General and turn on the option "Use scrollwheel for zoom"