Layout editor |
View menu |
Keep Scale |
You can use the Keep Scale option on the View menu or the Keep Scale button in the standard toolbar to influence the behaviour of a selected map view in the layout when dragging the borders of the map view.
When you add a map view to a layout, you have to specify an initial scale for each map view. By default, this is the scale on which you saved the map view. However, if this would not fit on the paper size you specified for the layout, the scale of the map view is adapted so that it will fit the paper size.
When for a selected map view:
the scale of the selected map view is fixed,
the scale of that map view will not change when dragging a border of a map view;
the scale of that map view can be changed by dragging a border of a map view.
You must decide on the scale of each map view, because a map view will be printed later on its specified scale, and in the layout there should be enough space around map views to position annotation.
1. Keep Scale is active:
When for a selected map view, Keep Scale is active:
When dragging the borders of the map view:
Tip: You can still change the scale of the map view manually by typing a scale for the map view in the Layout Management pane.
When you drag the size handles of the map view to the outside:
When you drag the size handles of the map view to the inside:
2. Keep Scale is not active:
When for a selected map view, Keep Scale is not active:
When dragging the borders of the map view:
When you drag the size handles of the map view to the outside:
When you drag the size handles of the map view to the inside:
See also:
Print (dialog box)