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Of fuzzy monitors and the zoom feature
Authored by: billy.kessler on May 08, '07 10:00:02PM

Previous commenters have not pointed out that there are big differences between Cmd-Option-= and Control-Scroll. The first zooms the whole screen, the second just the window the cursor is in (and only a subset of application windows at that).

Secondly, Cmd-Option-= will only zoom in (and can only be reversed back to normal size, not smaller). Control-Scroll will go both in and out. (It can be hard to refind your "normal" size, too!)

Finally, Cmd-Option zooms at pixel level (that is, the screen gets fuzzy as lcarroll saw), while Control-Scroll zooms the display vectors: text remains crisp at a wide range of zooming.

I don't understand, though, why Control-Scroll only works in some windows (Firefox, Word), but not Terminal, Safari, Preview .... and seems to be dependent on what is in the window as well.



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Of fuzzy monitors and the zoom feature
Authored by: cosmicpop on May 08, '07 11:54:31PM

Put simply, cmd-shft- - will make the font in your current app bigger, if that happens to be the shortcut for making fonts bigger in that app. It goes back to the Quark days I believe.
cmd-opt-+ just zooms the screen.



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Of fuzzy monitors and the zoom feature
Authored by: thinkyhead on May 09, '07 10:29:18AM

Sounds like you have the system-wide mousewheel-zoom feature turned off, or Firefox is just overriding it, because recent versions of Mac OS X Tiger do map Control-Mousewheel to fullscreen zooming. It just so happens that Firefox uses the same key modifier to zoom its text size.

To avoid such a conflict on my system I mapped mousewheel-zooming to the Command key instead, and this manages not to coincide with scroll-wheel shortcuts in any of the software I use.

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