### 6.18. Canvas Interaction

Figure 15.89. Canvas Interaction Preferences

This page lets you customize aspects of the behavior when interacting with the canvas.

#### 6.18.1. Activating the Dialog

The preferences dialog can be accessed from the main menu, through Edit → Preferences.

#### 6.18.2. Options

Space Bar

While space bar is pressed

  - Pan view (default) or

  - Toggle to Move Tool

  - No action

Zoom

Drag-to-zoom behavior

  This setting decides how zooming with the Zoom tool works. By default, the amount of zooming is By distance. The farther you drag the zoom rectangle, the larger the amount of zooming.

  You can also choose for zooming By duration. In this case, the amount of zooming depends on the time spent dragging.

Drag-to-zoom speed

  This adjusts the rate at which dragging the mouse will zoom the canvas, as a percentage.

6.17. Window Management |  | 6.19. Canvas Interaction Modifiers

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