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Mac 101: Zoom and pan images in Quick Look
Is your laptop not among those that can do Multi-touch? Don't feel badly, you can replicate those great features!Well, kind of. First, open an image with Quick Look. Next, hold down the Option key while performing a two-finger scroll. The image zooms in and out!
Finally, let go of the Option key but keep your fingers in place on your trackpad. The cursor turns into a four-point directional, and then you can pan the image within the Quick Look window.
This also works with a mouse and scrollwheel.
Thanks, Max!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mystic said 2:17PM on 4-17-2008
The only problem is Quick Look is using a low-rez version of the actual image, so zooming does little good. Open the file if you want to zoom.
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Murphy Mac said 2:23PM on 4-17-2008
Handy. Nice to know. Thanks.
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bophojones said 3:08PM on 4-17-2008
Also works with multitouch on my MBA. Sweet!
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PCheese said 3:42PM on 4-17-2008
How does this have to do with the multi-touch features? Pinch out makes quick look full screen; it doesn't zoom in like this does.
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Claudio Alexandre Cologni said 4:37PM on 4-17-2008
Awesome,
I never agreed about the zooming with Command+ work only with pdf files.
Thanks!
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Chet said 5:36PM on 4-17-2008
Rad! That'll be helpful, thanks for the tip.
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sam said 10:10PM on 4-17-2008
Anyone have that hippo image?
I love it!
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Richard. said 10:39PM on 4-17-2008
You can zoom in anywhere in the OS using the control key + two finger scrolling... this isn't anything new.
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dombi said 8:51AM on 4-18-2008
Richard: that is not the same feature. The one you are talking about is part of the OS's Universal Access function, which magnifies the whole display.
This article talks about a QuickLook feature, which I haven't know about either. Instead of the CTRL button, you are using the Option button i QuickLook.
julian said 2:35PM on 6-09-2008
I would like to point out that he meant command instead of option to "pan around the picture"
or at least thats what i came to when trying to reproduce it
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