- Page zooming
In
computing , page zooming is the ability tozoom in and out at page level. It is usually found in applications related to documentlayout andpublishing , e.g.word processing andspreadsheet programs, but it can also be found in someweb browser s as it improves accessibility for people with visual impairment and people usinghandheld device s which have a relatively small screen.While most web browsers have the ability to resize the text on a page, some cannot truly zoom a page. Page zooming and text resizing are two very different things; in page zooming, not only text, but also images, other multimedia objects, and viewports are all resized. When zooming in, a horizontal
scroll bar will appear when the screen is not large enough to hold the page content. In contrast, text resizing just increases the font size, with wrapping to avoid horizontal scrolling, leaving the size of the images the same.Example programs
Web browsers
* Amaya
*iCab
*Internet Explorer
* Opera browser
*Firefox (as of Firefox 3)Office suites
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Microsoft Office
*OpenOffice.org
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