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Hi, I'm trying to make a simple presentation with a couple of pages. On every page is a map of a building wich I want to have a ability for the user to zoom it in (to look at details) and to zoom out (for the overall view).

I cannot find such an possibility wich makes use of the mousewheel, as is provided in acrobat reader wich uses .pdf's.

What can be the solution?

Rem,

Welcome to the Opus forum.

There are often a few ways to accomplish a thing in OpusPro, and that is true here for your project.

1) do it outside of Opus... using standard Windows features. Just tell the User with a 'Hint'... how to do it.
see: viewtopic.php?t=1332&highlight=mousewheel

2) DW has provided some sample publications, so Browse Sample Publications... there you will find one that illustrates Maps and building-plans --- for some interesting techniques.

3) MouseWheel control is available to use in OpusPro, but you have to "do-it-yourself" with some scripting work.
related: viewtopic.php?t=2891&highlight=wheel


I played with MouseWheel control once some time ago... but for scrolling. It took a little work, but I eventually got there. If you will need help with scripting after looking at your options, suggest you post in Advanced.

Cheers,

Well Lar, thanks for answering, but for now I stick to a .pdf with multiple pages....... it provides me dynamic zoom on every page, simple and accurate - the only thing that I should use Opus is that you can direct your location to a specific map, that is, to change to a floor above or under, or a map on the same floor from another plan next to the map you are on. In a .pdf you can only look forward one page or backward one page and you are stick within a certain page hierarchy

Okay, understand.
If you do want to use Opus and need help with some of the techniques, just ask... people here are willing to help, and many times someone may be able to provide a working sample you can easily adapt.


If you do not absolutely need the mousewheel, but could use button action or perhaps a slider... then creating zoom effect is easy. (just use a scaling action -- should be a couple ways to do this... set specific factor, or scale continuously while mouse down, etc.)

Multiframe is a very useful object... to stack many items, and then navigate through... or select individual frames.