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Zoom in and out without the need to hold down crtl or alt key would make navigation much easier and faster.
It is really a question why developers/UI/UX designers of many of design softwares do not pay attention to this important fact that the user might do zoom in and out hundreds of times in a day and forcing him/her to hold down the ctrl or alt key all the time is tiresome and less productive.
Hope they understand this important fact and do accordingly to solve the problem like what Inkscape and Gimp have done to make it possible to choose the preferred settings.

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Is there a way one could achieve this in adobe xd or in figma? Tried AutoHotKey software to convert mouse scroll to ctrl down + mouse scroll but it skips some steps and moves the screen up and down between some steps.
Is there any plugin or any different approach to make it possible to zoom in and out without the need to keep ctrl or any other modifer key down?

Appreciate your share of knowledge.

Eftekhari
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  • Adobe has its own switch in prefs, figma I've never used. The advantage of alt or ctrl is that you can, for instance, reserve alt/scroll for Adobe & Ctrl/scroll for the system, leaving just scroll to do actuall scrolling. – Tetsujin Oct 15 '20 at 14:13
  • @John - OP doesn't want scroll, OP wants zoom. i suppose you could set up a multi-button mouse with the required modifier for zoom, even on a per-app basis [I do that heavily, for many features across many apps] but on a standard 2-button +wheel, maybe not. – Tetsujin Oct 15 '20 at 17:32
  • Thank you for the correction of my idea. – John Oct 15 '20 at 17:35

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I'm not aware of any 3rd party plug ins for this and you're right, we do zoom in and out hundreds of times a day.

One tip I use a lot: In the left panel, where you have your pages, frames, sections, etc.: Double-click the icon for the frame, image, section, etc., that you want to go to. It auto-zooms you to that object. Saves a lot of time. Hope that helps.

Taylor
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