Use case or problem
I was on a video call the other day, sharing my 4K monitor, showing something in Obsidian. I zoomed in as far as I could and the people at the other end said “can you zoom in a bit more please” and I had to say I couldn’t.
Proposed solution
If there’s a ‘maximum zoom’ variable somewhere in the codebase (173%?), please increase this value (Chrome’s max is 500%) or remove it. I don’t think someone zooming in ‘too far’ is really a risk that needs to be mitigated.
Current workaround (optional)
There’s not really a workaround that can be carried out quickly (e.g. while on a video call while people I’m trying to impress are waiting impatiently). Sure I can change the resolution of my monitor in advance, or change CSS, or the font size in settings, but I can’t do that in under a second.
For reference, this is how it looks fully zoomed on a 4K monitor.
If this is a limitation in whatever wrapper you use to ship the Windows app, let me know and I’ll go create an issue with them.
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Can you describe how you are zooming? What keys or commands?
Because here is Obsidian at max on my 4k monitor, zooming in with Ctrl-+:
And here it is with maximum zoom plus “Font size” in appearance settings, cranked up to max too:
And just to get a little bit silly here, you could also add a CSS snippet called “4k_zoom” that you could toggle on when you’re on a call, and add some font size (you’d have to find the right css tag, or include all the elements you want to embiggen):
.cm-line {
font-size: 140px;
}
Also, not questioning your experience. Just trying to narrow down if there is an additional setting that can be found that will work for you!
Might be a resolution thing too. What is your resolution set to? I’m showing 1800x1169px. If you are on a physically wider monitor, maybe your resolution is way bigger.
I’m using ctrl + to zoom in (technically, I guess that’s ctrl + =)
My resolution is 3840 x 2160 (that’s what I meant by 4k) and in Windows display settings my scale is 100%:
Tell me this, when you’re zoomed right in and go into settings and hover over the zoom slider, what value do you see, perhaps this is not the same for all users.
Obsidian:
Chrome (for reference):
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Bump, so what happens next, does this get logged as an issue that should be fixed? Or is it now lost to time?
It’s not lost. It’s here, but there is a huge list of feature requests. You should not bump it, nor expect any estimates. FRs are selected based on popularity, feasibility, and developer priorities.
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