Fix an iPhoto 6 (German) full-screen issue

Feb 09, '06 05:12:00AM

Contributed by: g-kar

I'm using iLife 6 in German on a 12" PowerBook. In this case, I had the following problem...

When opening an image in full screen mode, the zoom slider was not visible due to the small screen and lengthy captions on the speedbuttons. Clicking on ">>" did not show any results. When the screen was like this, the zoom function could not be used.

My workaround was to shorten the labels of the other speedbuttons, so that the zoom slider would be displayed more to the left and become visible, even at 1024x768 resolution. It works like a charm.

To do so, control-click on iPhoto.app, select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu, navigate to the Resources folder, and find the sub-folder for the language you're using (in my case, German.lproj). In this folder, make a backup copy of Localizable.strings, and edit the original file. Search for the captions of speedbuttons, and shorten the strings -- the portion on the right-hand side. For example, I reduced Rote Augen to Augen, Verbessern to Verbess., Freistellen to Freist., etc.

Save the file and restart iPhoto, and you should be able to see the speed slider.

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