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Thelonius

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Diagram Zoom Out Limited
« on: January 06, 2021, 11:51:19 am »
https://vimeo.com/497438787

Made a short screen behaviour video (see above link to Vimeo) that hopefully helps with my description of the issue I am experiencing.

I've got access to an A0 roll plotter, which means I can create quite large diagrams with a lot of content on them. These are created especially to target output at A0 size.

I used to be under the impression that you could 'zoom out' a diagram almost infinitely, so you could go as big as you needed and still see the entire diagram.

But this does not appear to be the case. Zoom out is not unlimited. Beyond a certain limit, user can only scroll up and down. Refer short video above.

Is this intentional Sparx app design -- or am I doing something wrong?

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Re: Diagram Zoom Out Limited
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2021, 01:29:52 pm »
https://vimeo.com/497438787

Made a short screen behaviour video (see above link to Vimeo) that hopefully helps with my description of the issue I am experiencing.

I've got access to an A0 roll plotter, which means I can create quite large diagrams with a lot of content on them. These are created especially to target output at A0 size.

I used to be under the impression that you could 'zoom out' a diagram almost infinitely, so you could go as big as you needed and still see the entire diagram.

But this does not appear to be the case. Zoom out is not unlimited. Beyond a certain limit, the user can only scroll up and down. Refer short video above.

Is this intentional Sparx app design -- or am I doing something wrong?
FWIW, I was under the same impression...

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Re: Diagram Zoom Out Limited
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2021, 01:00:54 pm »
It's a mystery to both of us, then.

Also - many people in our organisation that are using Sparx have complained about how text 'disappears' when you zoom out beyond a certain point on a diagram.

It would be nice if Sparx handled this like Visio does - you can't read the text, but there's still something there that you can see represents the text.