Zooming in on thumbnails

While working on my iDVD thumbnails to sort, etc, I can barely see them.
None of the Apple Accessibility features for zooming seem to work while I am in IDVD.
Does anyone know how to zoom in on the little thumbnails of my project and of the photos in the "Media" pane?

Control (right) - click in on one of the thumbnails and select Show as Icon in the contextual menu.
which will give you slightly larger thumbnails:

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this is a known bug (or maybe a "feature" - who knows)
Please provide feedback to Apple re this to be sure they understand users view of it - iphoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
LN

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I attached also some image of what I’m speaking about:
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[SOLVED]Nautilus not "zooming" video thumbnails

Hi!
When i set Nautilus to more than 100% "zoom", the icons of video files get bigger but the thumbnails drawn on them stay the same size, so the video files look like a big white rectangle with a small (regular sized) thumbnail in the middle of it.
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Last edited by whoops (2009-03-23 16:40:35)

Found inside: abs/extra/libgnomeui
File: gnome-thumbnail.c
changed:
size = 128;
if (factory->priv->size == GNOME_THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGE)
size = 256;
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size = 256;
if (factory->priv->size == GNOME_THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGE)
size = 256;
compiled, restarted nautilus: WORKING FINE NOW
But i don't think this is like it's supposed to be (and I've got no idea what else I changed by doubling that value). So, whatever that part I altered does - shouldn't there be something like...:
size = 128;
if (factory->priv->size == GNOME_THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGE)
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if (factory->priv->size == GNOME_THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGEST)
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Well, I've got got big thumbnailed video icons again, so I'll leave all the sourcecode I don't understand alone for a while now. I'm not marking this thread as "solved" yet, as the method I used to get where I want is most likely very, very, very wrong.
(edit: jupp, still working after reboot. source messy, thumbnails big, me happy. )
Last edited by whoops (2009-03-22 16:44:43)

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