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To create a top-notch document or presentation, you need to draw the details precisely but also keep on eye on the document pages as a whole. To help you out, LayOut has the Zoom Tool () and Pan Tool ().
You find these tools on the View menu, but because you’ll likely use them often, they’re also accessible with your mouse.
Tip: The Zoom Tool and Pan Tool don’t appear on the default toolbar, but you can add them to the toolbar by customizing LayOut’s interface.
Check out the following sections for details about all the ways you can pan and zoom.
Zoom In and Out
Zooming is such a common action, LayOut gives you plenty of ways to zoom:
- Scrolling your mouse activates LayOut’s zoom feature.
- The Zoom menu lives in the lower right of the LayOut interface.
- The View menu has the Zoom tool as well as four zoom commands.
Here, you find out how each option works, and you can choose your favorite.
Tip: If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel or if you’re a Mac OS X user with a Magic Mouse, scrolling is the easiest way to zoom in or out of your LayOut document. Scroll forward to zoom in, and scroll backward to zoom out. When you scroll, the cursor position determines the center of the zoom.
In the lower right, the Zoom menu enables you to select a preset zoom percentage or scale the document area so you can can see the whole page. (See Introducing the LayOut Interface for a tour of LayOut’s interface.)
After you select the Zoom tool () from the View menu, you can zoom in or out as follows:
- Zoom in by clicking and dragging up.
- Zoom out by clicking and dragging down.
You can also select the following commands from the View menu:
- Zoom In: Select this command to zoom in by 20 percent.
- Zoom Out: Select this command, and you zoom out by 20 percent.
- Actual Size: This command displays your document at its actual 100% size.
- Zoom to Fit: This command enables you to see your whole document area on-screen.
Panning around
The Pan tool enables you to move the view vertically or horizontally, which is pretty handy when you’re zoomed in and can’t see your whole document page.
Tip: While you’re using any tool, LayOut enables you to toggle to the Pan tool quickly and easily. If you have a scroll wheel mouse, simply hold down the scroll wheel to make the Pan tool cursor appear. Although Mac OS X users typically don’t have a scroll wheel mouse, you can still toggle to the Pan tool as you hold down the mouse button by pressing Command+Control+Shift.
You can also select the Pan tool () by selecting View > Pan.
With the Pan tool active, click and drag the Pan cursor in any direction to pan around the document area.