Agree. If it works as it schould work but in this version it is the bug. 

Odesláno z iPhonu

19. 3. 2018 v 19:54, Bruce Mutton via Therion <therion@speleo.sk>:

> I’m a big fan of undo, and use it a lot.  Unfortunately I did not notice the 
> reason in this case until too late.  I got to the end of the undo stack 
> before the problem was resolved.
> I think that the reason I did not take sufficient notice is that although the 
> zoom behaviour was not quite right, I was sure I had not rolled the mouse 
> wheel.  Hence I though I’d stumbled on a variant of the bug, and so put up 
> with it for too long before trying to back out. 
> For me rolling the mouse wheel to zoom is such a reflex (almost every 
> application uses it) that I do it without realising.  One option, short of 
> fixing the bug, would be to have the zoom level display on the menu bar 
> between the + and – controls.  That would give the user a cue to an imminent 
> problem.  The notification in the Drawing Area side menu is buried too deep 
> for the user to review constantly.
>  
> Bruce
>  
> From: Therion <therion-boun...@speleo.sk> On Behalf Of Martin Sluka via 
> Therion
> Sent: Monday, 19 March 2018 10:11 PM
> To: List for Therion users <therion@speleo.sk>
> Cc: Martin Sluka <martinsl...@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [Therion] Scaling problems with backgrounds in th2 files - 
> XTherion
>  
> The same problem. I used undo button to return to the correct state.
>  
> Martin S.
>  
>  
>  
>  
> 19. 3. 2018 v 9:44, Bruce Mutton via Therion <therion@speleo.sk>:
>  
> Today I made a new .th2 drawing file and used a .png file as a background 
> image.  Not something I do very much these days, as I typically use .xvi 
> files created PocketTopo files.  The xvi images work just fine in XTherion.
>  
> But as described in the post in this link, 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/therion@speleo.sk/msg06890.html, there are 
> problems when using the mouse wheel to zoom if background images are .jpg or 
> .png.  Until now I have adopted a work around of only using the menu + and – 
> zoom buttons where th2 files are linked to these.
>  
> However for one projected elevation drawing, even the + and – controls are 
> problematic.  I think I accidentally used the mouse wheel before inserting 
> the image.  As a result the image is only aligned with the sketch at one 
> particular zoom level.  144% in this case.  There is also a problem with the 
> image clipping.
> <image001.png>
>  
> In the above example, if I zoom out one level, the drawing reduces, but the 
> image does not change by the same amount.
> <image002.png>
>  
> If I use the zoom wheel, the situation compounds and gets worse.  So I have a 
> situation where I can only align this drawing at one zoom level, and I have 
> to be careful not to use the mouse wheel.
> Not really a problem in this case, as it is a trivial survey and scrap, but 
> it is a significant issue for anyone who might still be regularly using 
> scanned sketches for drawing.
>  
> Is this something that someone knows how to address?
>  
> I’m using Therion 5.4.1+f0c98ce (2018-03-03)
>  
> Bruce
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