Increase/Decrease Font Size

[Michael Bulgrien]

When a co-worker walks up behind me to see what I am doing, I like to bump up the font size so they can watch without squinting... Ultra-Edit makes it easy. It would be great if Beyond Compare did too.

[Tim]

Thanks, Michael. We'll add that to the wishlist.

In the meantime, you can configure the Display Font command to appear on your toolbar, and it has a dropdown with previously selected fonts. You can use it to quickly switch between two or more font sizes.

[timdiller]

Bump. It looks like this issue has gotten lost in the wishlist for the last 8 years. I'm a relatively new user of BC4, and I would like to have this feature. Pretty much every other text editor/viewer that I use has some facility for changing font size from the keyboard, usually with cmd+ and cmd -

[Aaron]

Hello,

Thanks. Our wishlist is extensive, and we aren't able to tackle every item. While we do not support zooming, we do allow customized fonts and sizing in the Tools menu -> Options dialog, Colors/Fonts section: Folder Views tab, File Views tab, etc.

[dbaldonado]

+1 for zoom

Yeah, the increase of display size (zoom) would be great (and much needed). I realize the work-around is to change the font but on a simple text files (.txt) the text is not actually formatted with a font type or size so changing that doesn't actually jive. Just my 2 cents for making the zoom happen or bump in priority to happen sooner.

-dB

Hello,

Thanks. Our wishlist is extensive, and we aren't able to tackle every item. While we do not support zooming, we do allow customized fonts and sizing in the Tools menu -> Options dialog, Colors/Fonts section: Folder Views tab, File Views tab, etc.

[Aaron]

This is something we plan to tackle. Keep an eye our for our upcoming BC 4.2 beta, which will have a Ctrl+Shift+MouseWheel shortcut for zooming.

[Chris]

Font resizing via Ctrl+Shift+MouseWheel and "Increase Display Font Size", "Decrease Display Font Size", and "Reset Display Font Size" commands are supported in Beyond Compare 4.2 beta that was released today.

Beta download page:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?zz=beta42

[bgwallace]

Font resizing via Ctrl+Shift+MouseWheel and "Increase Display Font Size", "Decrease Display Font Size", and "Reset Display Font Size" commands are supported in Beyond Compare 4.2 beta that was released today.

Beta download page:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?zz=beta42

Thanks Chris. What's the correct hotkey shortcut for a MacBook Pro with force touch trackpad and no mouse?

Regards,
Brad

[Aaron]

Hello,

We don't have a hotkey for using the trackpad instead of the scroll wheel of a mouse.

If you go to the Beyond Compare menu -> Preferences dialog, Toolbars/etc tab -> select Text Compare from the dropdown. You can then search for Zoom or Reset and assign custom hotkey combinations.

We can also look into trackpad gesture support; I'll make a note of it in our Customer Wishlist.