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user36800
user36800

Reputation: 2259

Spyder Help Pane: Clickable icon and/or hot keys for zooming?

According to the Online Help, there should be magnifying glass icons with +/- signs for zooming in/out. I do not have these

Spyder GUI

The normal hot keys Ctrl++/= and Ctrl+- also do not work.

I have to go into Tools > Preferences > Appearance to set font sizes. This is not convenient.

Why do Ctrl++/= and Ctrl+- not work?

Is there a way to get the zoom icons onto the GUI?

Ultimately, I want to be able to zoom in on a whim to read small text, then zoom out on a whim to read the rest of the non-small text. This is made necessary by aging eyes and the fact that the text font & size varies, not only across the GUI, but also within the same pane. This is not obvious in the Help pane pictured above, but the text following the Definition section is bigger. If I maximize the Spyder GUI window and maximize the Help pane, I am looking at both Definition text and the larger ensuing text. It'd be great to zoom in and out on a per-pane basis, but zooming in/out on a whole-GUI basis would be better than not at all (or having to navigate to Preferences).

P.S. I am using Spyder 4.1.5 on Windows 10.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 172

Answers (1)

Carlos Cordoba
Carlos Cordoba

Reputation: 34156

(Spyder maintainer here) Unfortunately the shortcuts Ctrl++/Ctrl+- don't work to Zoom In/Out in our Help pane.

However, you can perform those actions by doing a mouse right-click on that pane to get its context menu and click on their corresponding entries, as shown below:

Help's context menu

Upvotes: 1

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