Zoom in, Zoom out in the author view

[Vincent]

Hi,

My users ask me how to zoom in the author view.
What is the best way to zoom in or zoom out?

There is the combination "ctrl" "+" or "-" but it only increase the font size and it is quite long on big document ...

Thank you,
Vincent.

[Radu]

Hi Vincent,

We do not have a zoom in the Author which would work like a magnifier. Operating systems usually have applications which can be used to magnify a certain part of the screen.

Indeed the zoom increases the font size (and can also be done using Ctrl+Mouse Wheel Scroll like in a web browser).

What do you mean that it's quite long on a large document? Do you mean that it takes a while to re-compute the page layout?

What exactly do the users want to see better when zooming? Images?

Regards,
Radu

[Vincent]

Thank you for your quick answer Radu,


Yes, it takes a while to re-compute the page layout. (~4 sec sometimes on the biggest files)
In my case, it's not a question of image rendering.
Just a matter of reactivity. In practice, I think the user do not change the zoom too often... perhaps it will be OK.

Nevertheless, if you plan to implement such a magnifier, let me know !


Vincent

[Radu]

Hi Vincent,

The problem is that when they increase the font, probably users would also like to have the text content wrapped in the available visible region (unlike how a generic magnifier works), so the layout still needs to be re-computed in order to wrap the text content in visible lines. That's how a browser zooms. But in addition to Oxygen, a browser also increases the images, so it does more than a font increase.

Regards,
Radu