Zoom in/out

[Roxana Moise-Dan]

Hi!

Is there a way to zoom in and out in the outliner? I can’t find anything on the internet and I swear I managed to do that by mistake one time, but can’t remember what the shortcut was. And I didn’t noted it down because it was something I usually use everyday.

Am I crazy?

[Omar Domenech]

Not in the outliner that I’m aware of, but you can zoom in and out in other menu’s if you hold control and press the mouse wheel and move the mouse. 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Yeah, the Outliner seems to be an exception…I just set the general UI zoom, so that I can read it (Interface > Display > Resolution Scale (I have it up to 1.69 on my 4K monitor, so bad is my eyesight 😉))

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Hey @ox ,
No you’re not crazy!
I swear I have zoomed in and out in the outliner before. It doesn’t work now though.

[Roxana Moise-Dan]

Ah, I told you! So happy someone else remembers it too! But yeah, tried eveything, doesn’t work anymore.

Thanks again, guys. As usual 🙂

[Martin Bergwerf]

| I swear I have zoomed in and out in the outliner before.

Are you sure Adrian ? Memory can be tricky. (When I read your comment, I also remembered that being possible…but:)

I have tried this in a few versions that I have lying around, going back as far as 2.66 and the Outliner wouldn’t let itself be zoomed in or out with CTRL MMB.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

I’m positive. I also did it by accident, so I can’t remember how.
It must be with different hotkeys, it might of been CTRL NUMPAD+, or something like that.

[Roxana Moise-Dan]

Exactly, something with the numpad. I agree with Adrian. 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Doesn’t seem to be possible. There is a RightClickSelect request for it and someone made a patch for it…doesn’t appear to be implemented..

It’s very weird that the Outliner seems to be an outlier 🤔

[Roxana Moise-Dan]

I think me and Adrian created a bug while trying to do something else. And that’s how it worked, because like you said, there is nothing of the sort implemented in any version. Would be cool, though. I have so many typos because I can’t see that far (4k monitor).

[Martin Bergwerf]

Numpad + expands the items in the Outliner, but doesn’t zoom.

But you can make the whole UI larger:

[Roxana Moise-Dan]

Yes, thank you. I knew that and didn’t want to change the whole UI, but I’ll do that because I have no other option. 

[Martin Bergwerf]

As you can see, I have it quite large on my 4K monitor 😉

[Dwayne Savage]

You could try a different font or adjust just the text size(F4->Preferences->Theme->Text Style->Widget->Points->Default is 11) This will only affect the text of the user interface. Panel title affect the panels header and widget label affect labels. This way you’re only changing the size of the text. I also find that changing text anti-aliasing(F4->preferences->Interface->Text Rendering->hinting) to full helps some people to read the text better. sometime none works better. You can also change the font here. 

[Roxana Moise-Dan]

Wooow, that makes a lot of difference! Thank you so so much!

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