I like to study maps and charts online. I would like to find a magnifying glass to increase the size of some names or words without magnifying the entire image. I prefer Firefox. Can you share a link to such an add-on?
Using KDE in Linux they include KMag. which calls itself a screen magnifier, which is a square of any size one chooses, and moving the centre with the cursor magnifies any place on screen.
This, Virtual Magnifying Glass 3.6, from SourceForge appears to be much the same thing for any operating system, including Windows.
Windows has a built in magnifier - you’ll find it in the accessibility settings - but anything like that will only magnify the pixels being displayed - the effect won’t be the same as zooming into the map for that section.
Wow, that’s great. No setup hassle, easy to use, works great. Thanks for the tip.
Windows has this built-in, as Mangetout says.
You can push Windows - or Windows + to zoom in and out. Change the view to “lens” to make a behave like a regional magnifying glass instead of the full-screen default.
That doesn’t help the names printed on Google Maps, which are baked in as a tiny font, and no matter how aggressively you zoom in, they remain small. But this software does raise the font of Google Maps names.
Is that a special mode that you have to enable? I just tried it and it seems to pixel doubles the same way the Windows magnifier does, and small fonts are still unreadable when zoomed in, like in this screenshot. Gray box is Windows, black box is the software. Doesn’t seem any different.
I’m just surprised because to manipulate Google Maps the way you describe would require some sort of awareness of the Maps interface – it’s not a standard Windows API using standard type libraries.