How do you zoom in Quick Look?

[svenmany]

I was struggling this morning while working through a bunch of PDF documents; the Quick Look display was too small for me. Apple claims that zooming is possible with Command-Plus and Command-Minus on this support page. That does work for me when previewing a jpg file, but it doesn't work on the many other file types I've tried, including pdf. Does anyone have a different experience or know of an alternative way to get it to work?

I do use the accessibility zoom when I need to zoom the whole screen or portions of it. That's not what I'm looking for here though; I just want to zoom the Quick Look window.

 

[appltech]

Should work. Check your Settings for keyboard shortcuts and trackpad? gestures if MacBook

In pdf default zoom in/out gestures work as well

Check this out, for older macOS but you'll find corresponding options:

How to Zoom In on Mac: 4 Simple Methods

Don’t know how to zoom in on Mac? The article details not one, not two, but 4 different methods of enlarging the Mac screen.

mackeeper.com

 

[svenmany]

Should work. Check your Settings for keyboard shortcuts and trackpad? gestures if MacBook

In pdf default zoom in/out gestures work as well

Check this out, for older macOS but you'll find corresponding options:

How to Zoom In on Mac: 4 Simple Methods

Don’t know how to zoom in on Mac? The article details not one, not two, but 4 different methods of enlarging the Mac screen.

mackeeper.com

Thanks for the reply; it left me optimistic. I'll try to find somewhere that the shortcut is overridden. It does work on jpg's, though, so that would be a bit of a puzzle.

Just to confirm (and sorry I didn't specify): are you on Ventura? I am.

 

[chabig]

It does work on jpg's, though, so that would be a bit of a puzzle.

I suspect PDFs don't zoom in QuickLook.

 

[svenmany]

I suspect PDFs don't zoom in QuickLook.

Thanks - seems like it. So far I've only seen JPG and PNG work. Types I've tried that don't work for me:

log, pdf, mp4, mov, numbers, docx, xls, xlsx, txt, pages, ooutline, graffle

I just gave up after that.

Should work. Check your Settings for keyboard shortcuts and trackpad? gestures if MacBook

I'm only using the keyboard. I've found no shortcuts that override Command-Plus and Command-Minus. I definitely wouldn't have overridden such a standard shortcut. Just to be sure, have you seen zoom working in Ventura when you have a PDF viewed in Quick Look?

If anyone can report that they do see it working then I'll call Apple for support to see what's wrong with my setup.

 

[bogdanw]

In Monterey, Command-Plus/Minus don’t work for pdf files, but Command scroll up/down works.

 

[svenmany]

In Monterey, Command-Plus/Minus don’t work for pdf files, but Command scroll up/down works.

Thanks. I have Command scroll up/down set to Zoom in Accessibility. I had it that way even back in Monterey. That gives me a full-screen zoom. I just went and turned that off. Unfortunately, that did not enable that action to zoom the Quick Look window.

 

[chabig]

The support document talks about zooming in and out of "images." I think this is literal. Zoom works with image files, but not PDFs.

 

[svenmany]

The support document talks about zooming in and out of "images." I think this is literal. Zoom works with image files, but not PDFs.

I started to suspect that. I had read

• Zoom in and out of an item: Press Command-Plus (+) to make the image bigger or Command-Minus (–) to make it smaller.

as if it applied to any item. I had thought "image" meant "image of the item". Oh well.

You can zoom a Quick Look of a PDF by making the whole Quick Look window bigger. But, it always resets to a smaller size if you close Quick Look. Also, all the other document types I've tried do not zoom when you resize the Quick Look window.

Thanks for the all the input. In the future when I'm struggling, I'll just zoom with the accessibility zoom, which, with my settings, zooms the whole screen.

 

[bogdanw]

PDF zoom in Quick Look, Monterey 12.6.4

I only have a virtual machine with Ventura and I couldn’t get it to work.