@Daniel Beardsmore said:
@Morbii said:My answer was 100% correct based on your original complaint. Feel free to modify your complaint, however. I agree it makes more sense to zoom n:1 (but I also think many, if not all, of those programs will also zoom 1:n, which is not a whole lot different regarding fractions than what you've said in your new post).
Your answer is correct based on your particular interpretation of my complaint, an interpretation clearly not borne from ever spending time working with raster graphics.
Now, as far as zoom out goes, most programs except IrfanView get this right, too. When you zoom in above 100%, you resize. When you zoom out below 100%, you resample. IrfanView makes resize vs resample a mutually exclusive setting. So either zoom out resizes (just throws pixels away, so you can't make the image out), or zoom in resamples, which looks a horrible mess. You can't select the appropriate algorithm for both.
It doesn't have to do with interpretation, it has to do with what you literally wrote - "Start at 100, finish at 42". Until now there was no mention of sampling, etc, and I had no idea you even meant anything about that (and nor would have anyone else reading your complaint - and you're right, I wouldn't have known much about it, but that isn't the point).
I don't doubt the program behaves wtf-like, but IMO your original complaint doesn't show it. Now that we've gotten that squared away, I suppose we can move along!