diff --git a/profile-widget/qmlprofile.cpp b/profile-widget/qmlprofile.cpp
index 08f5836af..ca0293c3c 100644
--- a/profile-widget/qmlprofile.cpp
+++ b/profile-widget/qmlprofile.cpp
@@ -24,9 +24,20 @@ QMLProfile::QMLProfile(QQuickItem *parent) :
 	m_profileWidget->setPrintMode(true);
 	m_profileWidget->setFontPrintScale(fontScale);
 	connect(QMLManager::instance(), &QMLManager::sendScreenChanged, this, &QMLProfile::screenChanged);
+	connect(this, &QMLProfile::scaleChanged, this, &QMLProfile::triggerUpdate);
 	setDevicePixelRatio(QMLManager::instance()->lastDevicePixelRatio());
 }
 
+// we need this so we can connect update() to the scaleChanged() signal - which the connect above cannot do
+// directly as it chokes on the default parameter for update().
+// If the scale changes we may need to change our offsets to ensure that we still only show a subset of
+// the profile and not empty space around it, which the paint() method below will take care of, which will
+// eventually get called after we call update()
+void QMLProfile::triggerUpdate()
+{
+	update();
+}
+
 void QMLProfile::paint(QPainter *painter)
 {
 	QElapsedTimer timer;
diff --git a/profile-widget/qmlprofile.h b/profile-widget/qmlprofile.h
index 2798fa733..15bfac0c0 100644
--- a/profile-widget/qmlprofile.h
+++ b/profile-widget/qmlprofile.h
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ public:
 public slots:
 	void setMargin(int margin);
 	void screenChanged(QScreen *screen);
+	void triggerUpdate();
+
 private:
 	int m_diveId;
 	qreal m_devicePixelRatio;