During a recent Zoom meeting with Adam at Faithlife, I noticed an icon on his Shortcuts bar that reminded me of a power-user trick in which you may be interested: we can change the global text size of our resources, Guides, and Tools with the click of an icon!
Normally to adjust the Content Scaling percentage we would open Program Settings from the Help menu, navigate to Accessibility, and make a selection from the drop-down list. We can reduce all of those steps to one click!
- Type this command in the Go box: Set Content Scaling to 140% (or whatever percentage you would like) (A)
- Drag the same command from the drop-down list (B) to the Shortcuts bar (C)
- Right-click on the new icon if you would like to change it to a new image and/or text (D)
- Type this command in the Go box: Set Content Scaling to 100% (or whatever percentage you would like) (E)
- Drag the same command from the drop-down (F) list to the Shortcuts bar (G)
- Right-click on the new icon if you would like to change it to a new image and/or text (H)
Now when you want instant large print books, click the icon for the higher percentage. When you want to return to “normal” text size, click the icon for the lower percentage.
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Sorry, this command doesn’t function in the German version, neither the german command “Setze Skalierung des Inhalts auf” nor the Englisch command.
This is a GREAT tip, but it looks like it isn’t changing the size of my open ESV or UBS5 resources. Set Program Scaling seems to change everything, but also changes some window sizes.
Is there a command that could be put on the toolbar that either changes the scaling for just the active window, or for the Bible references?
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your question. Logos allows you to edit the Program Scaling and the Content Scaling.
You’re right, adjusting the Program Scaling affects the whole of the Logos app – scaling text, buttons, and icons. Adjusting the Content Scaling only changes the display size of the text in your resource. With that said, if you open the panel menu (click the
icon within the resource’s panel) for any resource, and drag the slider at the top of the panel menu left or right, you can override your Content Scaling settings for that resource only. This change will persist until the next time you adjust the Program or Content Scaling.
That doesn’t quite address your question about a resource-specific shortcut, but hopefully, it will get you close enough. If I’ve missed your intention entirely, feel free to write back and I’ll do my best to point you in the right direction!
– Adam
Thanks Adam – I’m familiar with the ability to use the slider for an individual resource. I’m regularly teaching a class via Zoom and would love to change the scaling of the Bible in particular. For some reason, Content Scaling does not seem to affect the versions I use the most: ESV, NASB, UBS5. For some reason, it *does* change NKJV, NIV84, Lexham, NLT, and the NET Bible. Is this a bug?
Hi Mike,
I just tested this out and it turns out that, in my install at least, changing the content scaling using the slider in my ESV overrides the **Content Scaling** in **Program Settings** even after I adjusted the system-wide scaling. However, once I returned the slider to its default position (the fourth tick mark from the left), system-wide adjustments once again changed my ESV.
Can you give that a try to see if it returns control of the ESV’s content scaling to the system-wide settings?
– Adam
…change via a button that is…