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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs Desktop
Fri, Nov 9 2007 at 2:00PM PST • Contributed by: Anonymous
When using Quick Look on a PDF (and, as best as I can tell, only PDFs), you can zoom in (Command-equals) and out (Command-minus) -- just like in Photoshop. Nice!
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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: mcmikemn on Fri, Nov 9 2007 at 4:41PM PST
A couple minor things:
  • "command-equals" might make more sense as "command-plus" (command-plus zooms in, command-minus zooms out.
  • in Safari 3 (and I think 2) you can use the same commands to "zoom" in or out (actually it just makes the font size larger or smaller)


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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: hoc.uspoc.us on Fri, Nov 9 2007 at 6:33PM PST
Is it just me? But this seems to work only in Quick Look's full-screen mode. But hey -- this is great! It makes Quick Look even more useful than it already was.

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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: hoc.uspoc.us on Fri, Nov 9 2007 at 6:34PM PST
Is it just me? But this seems to work only in Quick Look's full-screen mode. But hey -- this is great! It makes Quick Look even more useful than it already was.

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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: Zhen on Fri, Nov 9 2007 at 8:32PM PST
I was not able to use this hint before I switch to fullscreen mode. But after that, I can use cmd = and cmd - in quicklook no matter in normal or fullscreen mode.

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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: JonMountjoy on Sat, Nov 10 2007 at 7:20AM PST
I think the key is that it only works if the Quick Look window has focus. Making it full screen, gives it focus. Clicking on it, will give it focus too.

I would like to know how to give it focus via keyboard, and remove it via keyboard - both essential to making Quick Look perfect.

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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: tonvogels on Sat, Nov 10 2007 at 12:48AM PST
When holding the alt key you can zoom in and out in JPG's.

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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: zebrum on Sat, Nov 10 2007 at 7:43AM PST
hold alt and 2 finger drag up (or mouse wheel) to zoom in. Annoyingly it doesnt work on pdfs, only jpgs.

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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: philippec on Sat, Nov 10 2007 at 6:05AM PST
This seems to work for other document types, not just PDFs. I have created a custom QuickLook plugin for my own bitmap format, and I can zoom in the QL preview...

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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: ulfda on Sat, Nov 10 2007 at 6:21AM PST
Nice! Is there a way to go to the next page in a PDF document (without using the mouse) when in Quick Look mode?

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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: simonpie on Sat, Nov 10 2007 at 7:27AM PST
"Page down" works fine for me.

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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs
Authored by: zpjet on Sat, Nov 10 2007 at 8:29AM PST
Has someone noticed how great is the range of the zoom? I was able to zoom out to one pixel and zoom in so that a dot filled up the whole screen.

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Changing full screen window size?
Authored by: Pace on Tue, Nov 13 2007 at 11:40PM PST
I noticed this some time ago, but I still have one qualm about it: I haven't yet found a way to make the window frame move with the zoom. Which makes the feature much less useful.
I sent Apple feedback on the matter, but does anyone know of another little shortcut that makes that frame zoom with the document?

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10.5: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs, and also in PDFs embedded in Mail ans Safari
Authored by: mvmaastricht on Wed, Nov 21 2007 at 8:58AM PST
This trick also works with PDFs embedded in Mail.app and Safari! Very nice!

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