Zoom utility/add-in?

[barnes_jude]

Does anyone know of a good zoom utility which (I am hoping) can be set
to focus on any area of the screen and make it fill the entire screen.
I have tried windows accessibiltiy options and some other
freeware/shareware but all of them seem to only be a small magified
area where the mouse is positioned for the vision impaired, rather than
providing a zoomed interface. We have an IE application we developed
which was designed for 800x600 res, some staff are set higher
resolutions, and complain that the app is too small. There is no way
to zoom into it under IE's options, but maybe someone knows of an
add-in for IE?

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Check out the zoom feature of IE's Web Accessories:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.mspx

It works fine in IE6 except that you'll need to do an F5 Refresh on the
blank page that the Images List click brings up to finally get them.
Thorsten Gudera has
created both German and English "corrected" Versions of imglist.htm which
fix this.
You can contact him here: Thorsten.GuderaATt-online.de (replace AT with @
sign).
For Toggle Images (which you'll find on your Links toolbar), remember that
you'll
have to refresh after toggling to see the effects on the current page.
(BTW, if you
place a shortcut to it on your Quick Launch toolbar or wherever, you can
also use it
to prevent spam HTML emails from "calling home".)


Be aware also that there is a bug in the Zoom functions. The following is a
(modified) quote of a previous posting by Alan Edwards of a previous quote
by Ron
Vernon which outlines the fix: Regards, Jim Byrd


"I have not checked recently if the error has been corrected.
Without looking at your attachments, I assume you have made
adjustments like this old post by Ron Vernon MVP, which I made myself.
------quote
This is a bug in the web accessories.

To fix it, use Notepad to open ZOOMIN.HTM (found usually in
WINDOWS\WEB ),
and edit it to read both image dimensions before setting any of them:

old contents:
....
h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;
w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;
....

new contents (the 3rd line in the fragment above moved up):
....
h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;
w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;
parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;
....

Do the same for ZOOMOUT.HTM changing '*' to a '/'
..
-----end quote

....Alan

 

[mark]

This is an excellent tool:

it is a normal Windows application that works all over the screen
(and it is not an IExplorer add-in),
and it has an exclusive (never seen before) great feature:

a lens (up to 700x700, but the author can customize it for you)
that allows you
to move, magnify and click
everything on the screen
(this function is called 'Active Lens').

The software is called "Zoom" (1,5 Mb)
and the shareware version is here :
http://digilander.libero.it/important/zoom/eng

It also has several other type of magnifying features
(another good one is 'Drag & Mag', capture and magnify in a snap).

 

[Viktor Krammer]

Hello,

... but maybe someone knows of an add-in for IE?

Yes, I have developed a plug-in for IE that can zoom pages including all
content that is on the page.

http://www.quero.at/

 

[barnes_jude]

Do any of these solutions offer a constant zoom, meaning, if I jump
from web page to web page, the zoom remains constant?

 

[Viktor Krammer]

Do any of these solutions offer a constant zoom, meaning, if I jump

from web page to web page, the zoom remains constant?

Yes,
Quero Toolbar remembers the zoom setting.