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How to zoom in on your screen!
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I think this might come in handy if you're ever watching 4:3 letterboxed DVDs where you end up with a huge black border all the way around the picture. Just a thought.Jorey3969 said:
I totally read that as "how to zoom in on your screen name", read the whole thread, and then realized that I am a total and complete moron.
You may first need to go to System Preferences -> Universal Access and check the box for "Enable access for assistive devices" at the bottom.
On which platform did this feature originate?
Windows can now do this as well. What I wanna know is, which platform first added this feature? Windows or Mac OS?
Windows can now do this as well. What I wanna know is, which platform first added this feature? Windows or Mac OS?
For me, holding "control" while spinning the scroll wheel on my mouse does it as well. It always has, so I don't know if that's a default.
EDIT: Like ethical below me, I also didn't see that this was a 4-year-old thread...whoops!
EDIT: Like ethical below me, I also didn't see that this was a 4-year-old thread...whoops!
They had special hacks, like the Screen Spanning Doctor.
I use Mac OS X since 10.3.x and just found an article that with 10.4.8 Screen Zoom was introduced and since my use of Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 is quite awhile in the past, I just went with that article.
Last year I worked on a 10.2.6 machine, but don't remember if it was capable of screen zooming.
How very useful!
This was the most useful post I read in ages. Not because I did not know about screen zooming, but because I knew I can zoom in the screen while holding down the ctrl key and moving the trackball up just like you were scrolling on a screen. I need to confess I was zooming in Michael Phelps' swimming pants because there was a question about what was tattooed on him. I could not find the answer, but the trackball in my mouse gave up and I could not scroll back down. So there I was with a huge arrow filling up half of my iMac's screen, and not able to scroll back to normal. Then I went to google screen zoom on my phone and your post was the first answer I got. And what's the best in the whole thing: you were describing an alternative solution to screen zooming, just what I was looking for!!! So, again, thanks so much! I'll remember it forever.
This was the most useful post I read in ages. Not because I did not know about screen zooming, but because I knew I can zoom in the screen while holding down the ctrl key and moving the trackball up just like you were scrolling on a screen. I need to confess I was zooming in Michael Phelps' swimming pants because there was a question about what was tattooed on him. I could not find the answer, but the trackball in my mouse gave up and I could not scroll back down. So there I was with a huge arrow filling up half of my iMac's screen, and not able to scroll back to normal.
Then I went to google screen zoom on my phone and your post was the first answer I got. And what's the best in the whole thing: you were describing an alternative solution to screen zooming, just what I was looking for!!! So, again, thanks so much! I'll remember it forever.
