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| I upgraded to 10.8.4 yesterday, and learned that zooming has to be enabled. It's in System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom > check "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom." The default is the Control key. On Jul 31, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com> wrote: > I can relate. I have a decade on you, Brian. > > Here's what I do: Hold down the Control keyboard button, and zoom in using the scroll wheel up and down direction. The screen magnifies in the direction of the cursor, and any mouse movement towards the edges of the zoomed area scrolls the screen in that direction. > > I believe this is a default in OSX, but I'm not sure when it was implemented. In earlier versions it required enabling in the System Settings > Universal Access panel. > > > > On Jul 31, 2013, at 2:08 PM, Brian Maffitt wrote: > >> From a 50-year old user's perspective, while I love the extra real estate, I deplore the higher resolution when we have no user control over scaling the interface. I sold my 30" Cinema Display and now use three 24" monitors instead. >> >> I really thought this was a problem that would be solved by now, but using a high-resolution display means I basically have to work with reading glasses on, which is not my first choice. I'm really surprised that there isn't a "UI scale" slider in all applications, to let a user fine-tune an application to their native resolution at a custom scale. >> >> Brian |
