Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Increase Font Size in Google Reader

Google Reader added an option to increase/decrease font size for all the posts: press = to magnify text and - to decrease its size. Unfortunately, Google Reader doesn't save your preference, so the next time you open it you'll see the original font size.

While most browsers include a zoom feature (Opera, IE7, Firefox 3) or an option to increase the font size, Google Reader applies the new font size only to the posts, not to the entire page.


There's also a new keyboard shortcut for sharing posts and adding notes: Shift+D. To see a list of all the shortcuts, press ? in Google Reader.

Oh, and one more thing: you can now delete notes, not just unshare them.

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Why not use Ctrl + Scroll down (increase font) and Ctrl + Scroll up (reduce font size). Unlike the new Google Reader feature, this shortcut changes font size for the post as well as the entire page :)
Yeah, that "decrease font" key isn't working so well (Mac/FF). Fortunately, as you said, it doesn't remember preferences.
This magnification feature is growing on me - I can see the unmagnified text just fine, but having it there adds emphasis to the highlight, making it easier to focus on that.
doesnt work on FF3b5
Also since I dont like zoom all page, that is used on FF3, and the "Zoom Text Only" option sucks, I use NoSquint AddOn
http://urandom.ca/nosquint/
We pushed this in the same release as the "share anything" feature, but we figured we should wait for a couple of days before we announced it, so that the press from the other announcement would die down a bit. Here's the official blog post:

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/05/reader-can-i-have-lens-with-that-please.html

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer
Thank you! I was literally reading your post in my Google Reader and had been wondering how to increase only the post text size (I had been using cmd +/0 but that was annoying).

Cosmic! Again, thank you for your tip.
Can't read any green words.