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Is there a way to center the workspace/grid/map?

Hi everyone! I'm checking out Roll20 for eventual use with my usual gaming group, who might need to be using online-alternatives for a short while. I went through the tutorial, and a lot of the features seem great! But when I started playing around with my own game I encountered a problem: The map (or grid, or page, or what I should call it) is not aligned with the center of the workspace. To describe what I mean, in more detail: in photoshop, for instance, and software of that sort, the thing you are working on exists in the center of the workspace, in a grey void (of sorts), where you can move the page around freely, and zoom in/out, to adjust where you want it according to your own comfort and need. In Roll20 I don't seem to be able to move around in the grey void feely, but instead the page/map/grid seems to be locked a set distance from the left hand side of the screen. I am only able to move the "camera" around freely inside of the grid (if zoomed in enough to not be able to see all of it on the screen). If I zoom out to get a full view of th grid, it is locked to the left, often leaving a large gap of grey to the right, instead of being aligned with the center of the workspace (or letting me move it around as I wish). Making the workspace appear unbalanced and askew. This is making me very... uncomfortable. Almost dizzy. And it feels awkward for me to navigate the map/grid as I try to work in it. It helps if I make the map wider horizontally, rather than taller (as that creates the illusion of being more centered). But I would prefer to be able to, at least, center the grid so I can get a comfortable view as I'm working on it. Is there an option/setting that I am missing? Is my browser acting up? Has anyone else had this problem, and found some good solution to fixing it?=) Thanks in advance! And have a fantastic day =)
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
There isn't a way to do that currently.  It's a reasonably popular ask on the Suggestions and Ideas Forum.
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Kraynic
Pro
Sheet Author
The map originates in the upper left corner.  Any changes made to the map page settings will add/remove space at the bottom and/or right.  Basically, that corner is your anchor as things stand.  If it continues to bother you, build your maps in an external program and upload the finished jpg to use for your map.  Whether your finished product has a grid or not, the default grid on Roll20 is 70px square, so you can set up whatever program you use with that sort of overlay/grid while you work.  Then when you upload it and place it on a map page, you can use the right click menu to set dimensions and it will be sized to work with the default scaling of Roll20's grid.  You can then add padding around it and set a background color by oversizing your map page, if that looks best to you.  I know several of us leave a 1 or 2 grid space border around our maps for looks and for storage of tokens, setting images, or whatever.
Alright! Thanks for the quick responses. They were both very helpful =) I'll see what ways I can find to work around it. Thanks a lot ^^
Thanks!
From what I can tell from these forums, this has been on their "to do list" for at least 8 years.