Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Leopard Quick Look Tip: Increase Viewing Size of PDFs

Quick Look is somewhat of a mixed "blessing" in Leopard.

Some items are simply too small or small enough to be an eye-strain - such as Word, Excel, documents, etc.

I was viewing a PDF and on a whim decided to try "Command +" and voi la, the text size increased accordingly.

"Command -" will decrease it.

Unfortunately I've not found this to work with anything else.

As well, I cannot do a Quick Look of Pages documents? Only see the Pages icon.

I'm still using Pages 1.0.2, so I cannot say if newer versions allow for Quick Look.

Anyone have the newer versions? Can you Quick Look contents?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've had older versions of pages. Documents saved in the older versions only show the icon in quicklook, while newer versions show the entire document as they should.

I was surprised about that myself.

-rdm- said...

To Anonymous -

Thanks for that info. Believe it or not, that is incentive for me to upgrade to the newest iWork when funds are available. I've got a *lot* of Pages documents on my drive.

Wonder if each would need to be resaved in the newest Pages format to reflect contents?

The more I use QuickLook, the more it becomes indispensable and a real time saver.