Zoom

[jperon]

On my laptop’s screen, which is quite small with a rather good resolution, the default zoom is to small to be easily readable. While I can change it by opening the console and typing document.body.style.zoom="140%", it would be nice to have the ability to zoom in with Ctrl+mouse scroll.

[seancolsen]

+1

This is important for me because, due to my high-DPI monitor, Grist desktop is almost completely unusable without zoom.

I also tried:

• The keyboard shortcut Ctrl++ to see if that worked — nope.

• Starting Grist as follows (thinking that, as an Electron app, it might accept this command line flag)

  ./grist-electron-linux-0.2.7-x86_64.AppImage --zoom-factor=1.5
  

  This also did not work for me.

The document.body.style.zoom="140%" work-around is somewhat helpful, but obviously it doesn't persist across application restarts and some page navigation. That means I need to continue re-applying that work around throughout my work if I want to keep using Grist.

[mindey]

Ok. It's done in ext/app/electron/WindowManager.ts, on line 56. Adding zoomFactor to the constructor, and building it as described in the ReadMe, does work:

    const win = new BrowserWindow({
      width: 1024,
      height: 768,
      webPreferences: {
        nodeIntegration: false,
        preload: path.join(__dirname, "preload.js"),
        webviewTag: true,
        zoomFactor: 1.25
      },
      backgroundColor: "#42494B",
      autoHideMenuBar: false,
    });

Adding a parameter for it, like --zoom-factor=1.5 to pass to this place, would make it work as you desire @seancolsen @jperon