[Qgis-user] Opening a layout in "Zoom full" view

[Nicolas Cadieux]

Hi,

Just tested on 3.26.3 on a brand new install (Windows 11 and all).  I 
confirm that this is a problem.  I would do a bug report. This should 
not be an option. Layout opens at 5.7% even when saved at 100%.

Nicolas

Le 2022-11-02 à 4:42 p.m., Tony Shepherd (FarmMaps NZ) a écrit :
>
> Hi Nicolas
>
> Yes, I too had those issues with MapInfo and AutoCAD in a previous 
> life.  This is a stock standard QGIS layout, just a normal A4 and A3 
> layout, both either portrait or landscape.
>
> Any saved project, or any new project.  Add a layout or two that 
> contain the normal layout elements (map window(s), scale bars, free 
> text, attribute table etc).  All elements are within the “page”. Close 
> everything, open that saved project file, open the layout or layouts, 
> and the first view you get of that layout is a small view (say 20% or 
> so).  Then press the View Extents button and then it zooms to the 
> extent as expected.  So that tells me if there was an element placed 
> in a strange place within the layout then zooming to the extents would 
> then make that rogue element obvious, so in my case, I am sure that is 
> not the reason.
>
> I think it would be a good feature that when saving a project, the 
> layout will open at the same view scale as when the project was saved, 
> or perhaps have a flag that allows you to set a default layout zoom scale.
>
> It seems to me that in V3.26, when using any project file old or new, 
> the layouts seem to open at a much smaller zoom scale than previous 
> version.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony
>
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>
> Tony
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> *From:*Nicolas Cadieux <njacadieux.gitlab at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 3 November 2022 1:30 am
> *To:* Tony Shepherd (FarmMaps NZ) <tony at farmmaps.nz>
> *Cc:* Qgis Users List <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] Opening a layout in "Zoom full" view
>
> Hi,
>
> I have not experienced this yet in QGIS.  Is it in all of your 
> projects or just one?  It could be related to a certain file.  In the 
> past, I have had this problem with AutoCAD and Mapinfo.  It was 
> usually related to a file having  objects around the 0,0 coordinate, 
> (way off the normal coordinate system of the file).  Have you checked 
> the individual file extents?
>
> Nicolas Cadieux
>
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>
>
>
>     Le 1 nov. 2022 à 16:08, Tony Shepherd (FarmMaps NZ) via Qgis-user
>     <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
>
>     
>
>     Hi All
>
>     Maybe a silly question, but not one that I could easily find an
>     answer to.
>
>     Is there a way to set QGIS so that when it opens an existing
>     layout that it automatically displays it in “Zoom full” mode or
>     maybe set a flag somewhere that when you save the project the
>     current layout zoom is retained so that on re-opening it pops back
>     to how it was last displayed?
>
>     V3.26 seems to behave so that whenever I open a previously saved
>     layout it is about the size of a postage stamp and I have to press
>     the “Zoom full” button, regardless of how I last saved it.
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>     Cheers
>
>     Tony
>
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