I’ve created a number of annotation files. I started out with 14pt but increased it to 18pt for editing purposes in the annotation pane as these files are AI transcriptions of newspaper clippings. AI seems to hallucinate fairly often so I need to edit these files. When I then do a keyword search in the Annotation group, I’ve noticed that the size of the text in the image in the view pane is much, much larger than it is in the annotation pane. Is there a way to reduce the size of the text of the displayed font in the view pane? I have screen captures that I can share to demonstrate what I’m seeing but don’t see a way to attach them to this initial query.
Thanks!
Jeff
Drag and drop images into the composition window as you’re typing up your post.
What image? Are you just referring to the view pane?
The view pane/text editor has its own zoom level, independent of any font sizes. Go to View > Zoom in the menu, or use the zoom controls in the toolbar or keyboard shortcuts. Try Zoom > Actual Size.
troejgaard,
That works! I see that the zoom tool is still tied to the font size orginally used when the annotation file was created. If I want uniformity, I’ll have to go to the annotation file and increase the font size from 14 to 18. I started with 14 but that was too tiny for my old eyes. Your suggestion is a big improvement, though, so I greatly appreciate your tip.
Bluefrog,
My bad - I used the word ‘image’ when I should have used another word. I was referring to the text that appears in the view pane. Troejgaard’s suggestion solved most of the problem but now I see something else that is rather interesting. If I go to Tools>Inspectors>Annotation & Reminders, I can toggle the view pane to include or not include the right pane. Here’s where it gets interesting. If I toggle the right pane off and I created the annotation file in DT, the text of that file is displayed the full width of the viewing pane. If I instead select a file that was created by copying and pasting from the Google Docs output option of Gemini, the width is considerably reduced. I’ll guess that DT has a “full-width” default but that when a file is created outside of DT, the formatting of that file takes precedence over the DT defaults.
I’d like, for readability purposes, to have the full-width option but perhaps there isn’t a way to do that.
Update 2 hours later: This issue is due to importing an rtf file. I just discovered that if I save the Google Docs output of Gemini as an odt file (I’m sure it would also work if I saved it as a docx file) and copy and paste it into the annotation pane window, the width issue doesn’t occur. This must be some formatting default issue in Text Edit.
Another update: Tools > Inspectors > Annotations & Reminders does not work as well as Control - 3. The menu option frequently “sticks” and does not work. Control - 3 works flawlessly.
I suppose @BLUEFROG was asking for screenshots. One image, 1000 words…
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The width of content of text-based formats in the view/edit pane is controlled by Max Line Width and Margin settings in the Settings > Editing > Format. Additionally, rich text files have the ruler, available via Format > Ruler > Show Ruler.
Bluefrog:
Thank you for that information. I’m not using the view/edit pane for that purpose at this time, but I may well do so in the future.