Sizing from Edges, not the Center

I've noticed it's taking me longer to size maps to the grid than it used to in maptool. The Align to Grid option is amazing and beautiful, but it usually needs a small correction by a few pixels. A few pixels compounds over many squares, and I like big maps! The trouble is that MapTool lets you size from the edges, so it's pretty easy to line up one edge and stretch until all the Y axis lines line up, then repeat for the X axis. Sizing from the center is better for tokens, surely, but not as good for aligning grids manually. In theory, I'm preparing maps for premium modules, so leaving it to the GM to realign the grid during pay is unacceptable. My suggestion is this: holding the Control Key while resizing should size from the opposite edge of the gripper being pulled. Oh, that would make my life easier!

Seconded. Makes perfect sense for tokens, makes no sense at all for maps. Would it be confusing if the behavior was from edges on the map layer and from center on the token layer?

Sizing from edge was the way Roll20 operated until a recent update. The update changed the rendering and is now using sizing from center, I think it can't be changed from the explanations that were given at the time.

I also find placing and fitting background images and maps into Roll20's page canvases a bit troublesome. What if instead of just manually sizing or setting dimensions by entering numbers, there is an auto-fit option for just automatically placing the image / map / background inside the canvas of a Roll20 page? Or you could just drop an image file -map, background, etc- into a Roll20 page, and the canvas is automatically calculated and created according to the size of the image, to match it. I elaborated these points a bit further in the thread "Fit To Canvas/Make Canvas For Backgrounds" (<a href="http://community.roll20.net/discussion/1070/fit-to-canvasmake-canvas-for-backgrounds" rel="nofollow">http://community.roll20.net/discussion/1070/fit-to-canvasmake-canvas-for-backgrounds</a>)

Resizing from the centre sucks enormous chunks. There, I got it off my chest now! :-)

I'll vote for this option too. It's kind of a pain, honestly.

At one point, If I'm not mistaken, the sizing used to be from the sides. I would love to see it that way again!

It was from the sides at one time, but damned if I could get a premade map to fit the grid until their recent change. Maptool did this very well...I think Roll20 is catching up. Growing pains I guess. The Align to Grid option is much, much better than what we were dealt at first.