I use it all the time in any situation where what I'm looking at (i.e., anchor points in InDesign when editing with the Direction Selection tool) are too small for my eyes to see clearly.

If you make the Place window smaller so that the icons wrap onto multiple rows, you could hold the Control key and use a two-finger gesture (up or down) to quickly zoom in, find what you are looking for and then zoom back out. I use the Control key since it isn't used elsewhere in my workflow. If I'm missing something and the Finder settings should impact the Place icons, let me know.īut Macs do have an easy zoom option that you can enable in System Prefs > Accessibility > Zoom. I reviewed the accessibility commands and didn't find anything there that would help either (and InDesign does not have its own icon-scaling control). Hi was just playing with this on my Mac (macOS 11.2, Big Sur) and changing the icon size in Finder did not have any impact on the icons in the Place dialog box. Then I know and can re-log this as a fix request rather than a how to, and others searching the same inquiry can know also. Thanks!įurther: It would be an OK outcome if we could at least resolve it just to the point of - 'no that cannot be done'.

If I could ask you to, respectfuly of course, please review the detail of my original question. Also - given my attempt of Mike's idea was something linked to that concept, just through the basic sense at any rate (using the basic Finder scale all icon function - rather than getting into any custom command/Xcoding world) it didn't have any affect, as I would assume Adobe as a suite and certainly its specific programs, dictate all that sort of thing within themselves (I could be wrong - this sort of thing is not my specialty!)Īt any rate the thrust of my question is: is there a way of doing or option within Indesign for scaling up the Icons when in the 'place' UI, or failing that a way of activating the functionality for this that the MAc already has via the slider in the bottom right of windows that appears when you are in icon view mode (the slider allowing you to custom scale the icons per window you are looking at at will). The issue is with InDesign not the overall finder Mac etc.Īnd whilst I recognise the 'bootstrap' potential methodology of some fix whereby ALL the icons of Mac are altered for the sake of this one fix it wouldn't really be a fix as it would make your everyday mac working environment pretty awful. Hmm, I think we may be going in circles here and getting off topic (re the last chaps idea also).

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