David posted a few days ago about the Mac OS X 10.4.8 update which fixes a measurement problem with Mac Intel computers in InDesign. But there’s an unexpected cool feature in 10.4.8 too: If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse and you hold down your Control key, you can zoom in smoothly!
You’ve been able to zoom in with keystrokes using the Universal Access preference panel for some time. When Zoom is turned on, you can press Cmd-Option-= to zoom in and Cmd-Option-hyphen to zoom out, but using a scroll wheel is much smoother and more intuitive. It’s a great feature if your eyes are aging faster than you’d like, or if you doing a presentation and want to highlight something.
Also, if you have one of the new laptops where you can use two fingers on the trackpad to scroll, you can now add the Control key to zoom in and zoom out. Dragging up zooms in, dragging down zooms out.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on October 4, 2006
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