dougster1

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Q: Zooming in on thumbnails

While working on my iDVD thumbnails to sort, etc, I can barely see them.

None of the Apple Accessibility features for zooming seem to work while I am in IDVD.

Does anyone know how to zoom in on the little thumbnails of my project and of the photos in the "Media" pane?

PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Feb 16, 2015 11:18 AM

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Q: Zooming in on thumbnails

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by Old Toad,

Old Toad Feb 16, 2015 2:34 PM in response to dougster1
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Feb 16, 2015 2:34 PM in response to dougster1

Are you referring to thumbnails as in this screenshot?
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dougster1 Feb 18, 2015 7:43 PM in response to Old Toad
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Feb 18, 2015 7:43 PM in response to Old Toad

Yes, that is the place.
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by Old Toad,

Old Toad Feb 19, 2015 8:35 AM in response to dougster1
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Feb 19, 2015 8:35 AM in response to dougster1

Can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing? Use the Shift+Command+4 key combination to select the area you want to copy.
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dougster1 Feb 19, 2015 6:34 PM in response to Old Toad
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Feb 19, 2015 6:34 PM in response to Old Toad

Here is what I see--I just want to be able to zoom in on a thumbnail to get a better look...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aszsdufgld2g80w/Screenshot%202015-02-19%2016.47.33.png ?dl=0
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Old Toad Feb 20, 2015 8:08 AM in response to dougster1
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Feb 20, 2015 8:08 AM in response to dougster1

Control (right) - click in on one of the thumbnails and select Show as Icon in the contextual menu.

which will give you slightly larger thumbnails:
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by Bengt Wärleby,

Bengt Wärleby Feb 20, 2015 8:16 AM in response to Old Toad
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Feb 20, 2015 8:16 AM in response to Old Toad

Hi Old Toad

Isn't it so that one also could change the Monitor resolution - to get kind of enlarged pictures ?

If I remember right one could change from 1440x1080???? to 600x480??? or like just momentarily - rather crude way still was a memory glansing by.

Yours Bengt W
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Old Toad Feb 20, 2015 8:29 AM in response to Bengt Wärleby
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Feb 20, 2015 8:29 AM in response to Bengt Wärleby

Yes, that would work. It can mess up the Desktop and the arrangement of hard drives and files/folders on it but will work.
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by dougster1,

dougster1 Feb 20, 2015 8:40 PM in response to Old Toad
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Feb 20, 2015 8:40 PM in response to Old Toad

This works for the media pane. Once I display as icons, I can double-click and pretty much see the whole picture.
I am still curious why Zoom doesn't do anything in iDVD and why this won't work on the thumbnails on the "DVD Map."
You did help me get through my project, though!
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