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Questions tagged [zoom]

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.

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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…
codekiln
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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.
Mike L.
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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…
Ian Boyd
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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?
André Chalella
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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…
user56reinstatemonica8
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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…
Wulf Solter
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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…
Ash
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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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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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Firefox pinch zoom without trackpad

Is there a shortcut or a setting in about:config that allows me to use the pinch zoom feature with mouse and keyboard only? I dont' have a touch pad but like the pinch zoom much more than the classic "CSS zoom". I know I could use something like the…
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VLC interactive zoom level?

Is there any way to edit/tune interactive zoom level in VLC ? it seems that the default zoom is 200%. I would like to make it 150 %. I found something here Fine control over zoom and aspect ratio in VLC player but this cmd procedure seems complex…
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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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Make Firefox automatically set zoom level for new webpages

When Firefox goes to a new webpage I don't want it at 100% zoom but at a different percentage that I specify, and I want it to always use this zoom for all pages that it goes to. How can I do that?
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