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### 7.8.56 Layer Style/Magnifier Effect

The Magnifier Effect scales every layer that is drawn before the current one and that is covered by the current layer. There are 2 modes:

- Layers Of The Same Group
Using this mode only those layers are scaled that are in the same group as the magnifier layer.
- Layers Of The Parent Group
If you want to draw a real magnifier, you normally want to place a graphics in document, too, that shows a magnifier, and in the lens area of the magnifier the background should be scaled. This magnifier graphics usually is a group, because this way it can be moved and sized most comfortably. Of course the style layer with the magnifier effect should be part of this group, too, so that it is moved and sized the same way as the graphics. Exactly this is the reason for Layers Of The Parent Group: those layers are scaled, that are at the same hierarchy as the magnifier graphic. Following picture shows an example for this:
The layers are ordered this way:
The background and the text layer are scaled. The group "Magnifier Graphic" contains the whole magnifier including the magnifier effect layer. "Magnifier Effect" is a vector layer occupying the area of the lens of the magnifier. On this layer the magnifier effect with the option Layers Of The Parent Group was applied. The group "Mag. Without Effect" is a magnifier, but offers no effect.