For questions about using the zoom feature to make a window larger or smaller on a computer. Questions about using the zoom feature on electronic devices, media players, cameras, cell phones or smart phones are off topic, except insofar as they interface with your computer. For questions about the Zoom videoconferencing system, use the [zoom-meeting] tag, not the [zoom] tag.
Questions tagged [zoom]
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Disable “Ctrl”+mouse wheel zooming in Chrome?
I'm a normal-sighted person and I would like to view pages at 100% all the time. I use keyboard shortcuts that involve Ctrl a lot, so about twenty times a day I accidentally hit Ctrl at the same time that I'm scrolling, which results in the page…
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How to zoom-in without having the image blurred in Irfanview
How can I zoom-in without having the image blurred in Irfanview? I need it for GUI development to see large pixels.
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Mac OS X zoom in application with mouse wheel
I am coming from Windows and miss the feature that allows to increase/decrease the text size in many applications (Chrome, PDF readers, Text editors,...) by using CTRL-MouseWheel. Instead the size of the whole display increases which is not what I…
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How to make Google Chrome honor my Windows DPI setting?
Google Chrome doesn't seem to respect my DPI setting in Windows. I run at 150 DPI, but Chrome ignores that, meaning that images and text are teeeeeeny tiny.
I hit:
Ctrl + +
Ctrl + +
to zoom in. Unfortunately every new tab, or new window, defaults…
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How can I make Chrome shrink to fit on printing?
I'd like to print a web document on a single page, but Chrome famously doesn't have this feature normally called fit to page or shrink to fit.
Is there a workaround?
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Why does Firefox interpret 100% zoom differently to other browsers?
It's bugged me for a while that Firefox (on Windows 7) seems really "zoomed in" compared to other browsers, even after using ctrl-0 or the zoom menu to make sure its zoom level is 100%.
Chrome left, Firefox right. Both are set to 100% zoom, but…
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How do I reset the zoom level in Firefox?
How do I reset the zoom level in Firefox back to the default?
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Lock/disable the zoom on Chrome Browser
Is there a way to disable/lock the mouse/touchpad zoom in the Chrome browser? I find myself accidentally triggering ctrl-wheel or touchpad-two-finger far more often than do intentionally.
As an afterwards bandaid fix, Ctrl-0 will quickly restore…
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How do I keep images zoomed at the same level when viewing multiple images in one session?
I have a lot of images of the same size (2272x1920), each depicting a layer in a model. The interesting part of the images is a rectangular area that is of the same size and at the same position in all of the images, so I zoom in on the interesting…
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How to zoom in Windows using the mouse? (like in OS X)
In OS X, you just assign Cmd or ctrl + mouse scroll for zooming in. This works anywhere, in any app.
Windows 7 also has a nice magnifier, and has some hotkeys:
Magnifier keyboard shortcuts
The following table contains keyboard shortcuts for working…
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Fine control over zoom and aspect ratio in VLC player
In VLC Player (v1.01), how do I zoom video and control aspect ratio with fine control, as is possible with Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPCHC)? The standard zoom appears to only support double, normal, quarter size etc, not useful to me at…
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Change default zoom level of PDF files
When I open few PDF files in Foxit Reader or Adobe Reader 9.3, it is opening in a higher zoom level. So every time I want to zoom in to view the document properly.
Is there any way to change the default zoom level?
I also tried,
* Edit |…
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How can I quickly zoom in on the Mac OS X version of Word without having to use the menu?
(I'm using the Mac version MS Word 2011)
I used to happily use the wheel mouse to zoom but, after upgrading to the Mac Magic mouse (using only finger slide movement to scroll and pan) I can no longer hold Ctrl and roll the mouse to zoom (driving me…
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Disable or lock zoom in Notepad++
Is it possible to disable or lock the zoom feature in Notepad++?
I'm doing a lot of copying and pasting, and the zoom level keeps changing on me. It's driving me nuts!
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How do I zoom into text with JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
I would like to zoom in on text for presentations or when I need to focus on one function within the code.
How can I do this on a Mac OS?
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