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OneLoupe: Simple, small, and portable desktop zooming solution
by Brad Linder Jun 13th 2008 at 1:00PM
The zoom window is resizeable. All you have to do is hit the up, down, right, or left arrow keys on your keyboard to stretch or shrink the window. And you can zoom in and out by hitting the plus or minus buttons or scrolling your mousewheel.
Want to save a zoomed image to your clipboard? Just hit B to save a bitmap and you can paste your image into any program.
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Red Gerland said 1:41PM on 6-13-2008
Does anyone knows any program for windows, that can do zoom-in/zoom-out with the scroll of the mouse, just like the Compiz in Ubuntu does it?
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Insurance Blog said 2:40PM on 6-13-2008
Zoomit is worth a mention:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx
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Richard said 2:48PM on 6-13-2008
Maybe this is what Red was after too, but does anybody know of a (free) app that will do the zoom full screen?
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Richard Holden said 2:49PM on 6-13-2008
Does anybody know of a similar (free) app that will zoom full-screen?
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James said 3:47PM on 6-13-2008
You can change the size of the zoomed-in area in OneLoupe by using the arrow keys while it's magnifying something. There are a couple of other useful features it has too, all mentioned in the Help section you get when you right-click on its system tray icon.
One other great thing about this program -- it doesn't install; you just run it. As a result, my colleagues at work who don't have admin rights can still use it.
Fred Thompson said 3:17AM on 6-14-2008
Magnifier uses the scroll wheel to set the zoom level. It will also do a capture and has a setting to smooth edges of text which I find quite helpful. Anti-aliasing looks chunky when zooming. I don't really understand the full screen question. If the desire is for the entire screen to be magnified, how would you navigate? http://www.iconico.com/magnifier/
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Mason said 4:34PM on 6-17-2008
Isn't this just a clone of the zoom feature in most Microsoft wireless mouses? Can't remember what it was called, "intellizoom" or something like that?
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