Magnifying Glass

evildictator91 · Mar 10, 2009

I am giving a presentation in a month and am looking for a way/program to magnify certain portions of my screen on the fly like: Finovate 2007 Video Archives

I have googled and come up empty-handed. Surly I am not the only person looking for this? I did find a program called "Computer Glasses" but it doesn't seem to work very well.

Thanks

MacGnG · Mar 11, 2009

option + scroll wheel will zoom in on the arrow on the screen

mystic_fm · Mar 11, 2009

Ctrl + scrollwheel seems to do it for me, in case the option key doesn't work for you. Or if you don't have a scroll wheel handy and are using a MacBook or MBP made in the last few years, you can also zoom in by making a two-finger gesture upward on the touchpad while holding the Ctrl key (and reverse the gesture direction to zoom back out).

evildictator91 · Mar 11, 2009

mystic_fm said:
Ctrl + scrollwheel seems to do it for me, in case the option key doesn't work for you. Or if you don't have a scroll wheel handy and are using a MacBook or MBP made in the last few years, you can also zoom in by making a two-finger gesture upward on the touchpad while holding the Ctrl key (and reverse the gesture direction to zoom back out).

Thanks, but I was already aware of this. I want to be able to magnify parts of my screen, not the whole thing.

torchy · Mar 11, 2009

System Prefs > Universal access > Zoom > Options
There are a few options there incl Zoom follows keyboard focus and screen image moves continuously with pointer.

Magnifying Glass

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