ALT vs Ctrl + Mouse Wheel for Zoominig.

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February 17, 2023
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This must be a bug. In Windows, the standard scroll-wheel zoom key is Ctrl. Pretty much everything follows this standard, including ALL web browsers, Word, Explorer, even ADOBE Reader,ACROBAT, and Bluebeam REVU. Except Adobe Creative Cloud software (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc.). It uses the Alt key instead. This inconsistancing slows down production and needs to be changed

If this is not a bug, this should at least be an option to reverse the ALT and Ctrl keys in the preferences.

NOTE: Simply Going to :Edit > Preferences > Tools > Check the item "Zoom with Scroll Wheel"

Allows Zooming without ALT or Ctrl, but now you can only scroll vertiacally and not horizontally.

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Mariam Hovhannesyan

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I think there are some options:

There's the Zoom with scroll wheel, so you can zoom just by using the scroll wheel.
There's the cmd+space + mouse click zooming (alt+space for zooming out).
...and the same thing as the previous method, except instead of a mouse click, you mouse drag sideways with the mouse while pressing down those same modifier keys. Also works if you switch to the zoom tool (Z), if you're not a fan of modifier keys at all
Edit > Preferences > Tools > Check the item "Zoom with Scroll Wheel" I hope you can change Alt to CTRL to zoom in/out.