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Preview suddenly stopped scaling the preview window


Marcus_Wallinder

Hi!

For some reason the Preview suddenly stopped scaling when I resize it to check my prototypes. For clarity, this happens when I’ve hit shift-space, and resize the preview either from the right side, or from the bottom. It just makes the preview screen bigger, and doesn’t scale the window like it used to do.

First this happened in browser mode, and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong so I downloaded the Windows app and there it worked properly on all my prototypes. A few hours later just now it stopped working in the Windows app too.

If I check on my other computer, a laptop, the Preview scales correctly.

I’ve disabled all Chrome extensions and rebooted, nothing works.

For reference the app scales under the menu here, so weird.

11 replies

Ryan_52
Figmate
  • Technical Quality Specialist
  • 382 replies
  • October 26, 2023

Hi @Marcus_Wallinder do you happen to have a device frame set?


Marcus_Wallinder

Yes, I used the “iPhone 13 & 14” device frame, I have since renamed it.


Marcus_Wallinder

Do you think its has something to do with this?


Emma_Stephens

This also just started happening to me.

I’m not using a device frame on my prototype.

It was working as expected (I scale my preview window and the prototype scales along with it) and then not even 5 mins later, directly after the update it now stops scaling.

Feels to me like it might have had something to do with the recent update


Emma_Stephens

Some additional information that I have just discovered… when clicking the “Fit frame to aspect ratio” it scales the window to the correct ratio, but the prototype spills outside of the frame. See image attached


Ryan_52
Figmate
  • Technical Quality Specialist
  • 382 replies
  • October 30, 2023

Thank you both for the reply and sorry to hear this is happening! @Emma_Stephens The issue regarding the “Fit to frame aspect ratio” does seem strange, can you please reach out to our support team directly via this form: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new so they can take a closer look. Please include a short video and a link to the file and share it with support-share@figma.com

@Marcus_Wallinder I suspect it had something to do with the device frame on the prototype being set. If changing that to “None” doesn’t help can you also please reach out to our support team via the same forum linked above.


Klaman
  • 3 replies
  • May 30, 2024

Was there ever a solution here? This just started happened in some of my files as well and can’t tell why…


dvaliao
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 4603 replies
  • May 31, 2024

Hey @Klaman, sorry to hear you’re having this issue!

We didn’t receive a screen recording or file from the previous users. If you can, share a file with us here: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Please use your Figma account email, include a link to the file, and share edit access with support-share@figma.com, so the team can take a closer look.


  • 2 replies
  • June 6, 2024

Is there any update on this? I’ve been struggling with this for a few weeks now in several different Figma projects and I can’t find any solution (MacOS client).


dvaliao
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 4603 replies
  • June 7, 2024

Hey @Bram_Bos,

Nothing yet. We still haven’t received a screen recording or file from the previous users. If you can, share a file with us here: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Please use your Figma account email, include a link to the file, and share edit access with support-share@figma.com, so the team can take a closer look.


  • 2 replies
  • June 14, 2024

Unfortunately I can’t share a screen recording right now because my current projects are confidential.

But I have found that the solution is to reload the page by right-clicking on the document tab in the MacOS client. After reloading the page the scaling works correctly again - so it seems like this is a bug and not a feature I have overlooked.


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