Zooming into the Montage Canvas

Zoom In

Select the zoom cursor   by means of the

You can also use the keyboard accelerator CTRL++ (press the keys CTRL an + simultaneously). You may use CTRL and the + key in the numeric key pad in the right side of the keyboard if you have enabled the NumLock key.

When you have a zoomed view there will be scroll bars at the bottom at to the right of the canvas, so you can still navigate to any point of the canvas.

There are two modes of zoom: stepwise or area zoom.

Stepwise Zoom:
When you have selected the zoom cursor   move it to the position you want as center for the zoomed view and click the left mouse button.

This will zoom in by a factor of 2:

Area Zoom
When you have selected the zoom cursor   move it to the position you want as one corner of the zoomed view.

Press the left mouse button, and keep it pressed as you drag a rectangle.

When the mouse button is released you zoom into the selected area:

The zoom factor depends on the size of the rectangle.

You cannot zoom in by a factor > 16. This is because larger zoom factors would require so much system memory that it might slow down your system to an unacceptable level, or even kill it.

You may zoom in in succesive steps, but the net zoom factor must still not exceed 16.

Zoom Out

You may also use the keyboard accelerator CTRL+- (press the keys CTRL and - simultaneously). You may use CTRL and the - key in the numeric key pad in the right side of the keyboard if you have enabled the NumLock key.

Zoom Out is only available if you have a zoomed view.

No Zoom

You can also use the keyboard accelerator CTRL+*. These controls are only available if you have a zoomed view.