Magnification in OmniOutliner 3?

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Bartel:

Thank you for your prompt and very interesting response! Unfortunately, 
in the end, it was not what I wanted (which is not your fault):

On Dec 4, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Rob Bartel wrote:

> On Dec 4, 2004, at 1:55 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
>> Is it possible to magnify text (not increase font size -- keep font 
>> size the same, but magnify the text as displayed on the screen) in 
>> OmniOutliner 3?
>
> You may have received this tip already, but a very handy feature in OS 
> X is enabled by the Universal Access system preference pane. Turn On 
> Zoom, then you can use clover-option-+ and clover-option-- (minus) to 
> zoom in and out in any application. It does a very good job too, it 
> seems to be smarter than simple pixel doubling.

I tried what you suggested -- turning on "zooming" in the Universal 
Access pane in the System Preferences. Unfortunately, what that does is 
zoom the entire desktop and screen, which is not quite what I want. (In 
fact, it was interesting, in a roller coaster sort of way; moving the 
mouse moved the screen in the opposite direction. But too creepy and 
vertiginous for me.)

I seem to remember that the Omni folks had been asked long ago about 
zooming as a feature. I hope it is still on their to-do list. Sadly, I 
might be unable to use OmniOutliner effectively without this feature -- 
and my eyesight is not very bad at all. I cannot be the only user whose 
eyesight is going South (or who uses a high pixel-density monitor). 
There are rumors that Apple is looking to make changes to Quartz to 
make applications and windows resolution independent, though it has not 
been announced for Tiger OS X 10.4. That would be the ultimate solution 
to my problems.

Therefore, if the fine folks at Omni are listening, please take this as 
a feature request: give some upcoming version of OmniOutliner the 
ability to zoom text. Your users will thank you.

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto: clint DOT macdonald AT ttuhsc DOT 
edu>