Wise Young
10-13-2006, 04:45 AM
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10.4.8 and three-finger zooming
Tuesday October 3, 2006 1:06PM
by Giles Turnbull in News
One of the nice new features in OS X 10.4.8, released this week, was the improved zooming technique using a mouse scroll wheel; hold down Control and scroll, and everything on screen zooms in and out very nicely.
I just noticed this evening that the same trick applies when you’re using the two-finger scroll trick on a notebook computer’s trackpad; try holding down control while you two-finger scroll. Everything zooms. Three-finger zooming.
I use the zoom feature quite a lot, usually to concentrate on a paragraph of text I’m reading or writing. It’s one of those things, like Quicksilver, that I miss most when I’m using someone else’s Windows machine. The new keyboard command for it is much more convenient that Command+Option 8 - which still works, incidentally.
If you are using powerbook with a trackpad, you need to set the preferences for the trackpad for two-finger scrolling, as illustrated below in the attached image. It is useful if you have limited vision and need a fast and convenient way to magnify your screen to see small writing or images, just hold the control key while dragging two fingers on the trackpad. Drag up to magnify and Drag down to reduce the magnification.
Wise.
10.4.8 and three-finger zooming
Tuesday October 3, 2006 1:06PM
by Giles Turnbull in News
One of the nice new features in OS X 10.4.8, released this week, was the improved zooming technique using a mouse scroll wheel; hold down Control and scroll, and everything on screen zooms in and out very nicely.
I just noticed this evening that the same trick applies when you’re using the two-finger scroll trick on a notebook computer’s trackpad; try holding down control while you two-finger scroll. Everything zooms. Three-finger zooming.
I use the zoom feature quite a lot, usually to concentrate on a paragraph of text I’m reading or writing. It’s one of those things, like Quicksilver, that I miss most when I’m using someone else’s Windows machine. The new keyboard command for it is much more convenient that Command+Option 8 - which still works, incidentally.
If you are using powerbook with a trackpad, you need to set the preferences for the trackpad for two-finger scrolling, as illustrated below in the attached image. It is useful if you have limited vision and need a fast and convenient way to magnify your screen to see small writing or images, just hold the control key while dragging two fingers on the trackpad. Drag up to magnify and Drag down to reduce the magnification.
Wise.