How to Specify Size of ITC Screen Display

Summary

The size of the text can be important to a transcriptionist or editor producing documents in the ITC.  Besides the font size of the document and underlying template, there are two ways to influence the size of how the document is displayed.

Solution

The first thing to consider is the resolution used in Windows for your monitor.  That can be changed in the Windows Control Panel or by right-clicking the Desktop and choosing Personalize (or Properties for older versions of Windows).  This will change the size of all programs and websites displayed on the computer all the time.  (A higher resolution means a smaller size of characters and images and vice versa.)

Alternatively, if you only want to change the size of the text in the ITC, you can specify a zoom setting for just the current document or specify a default zoom setting which will be used for all documents in the ITC Editor. 

• Current Document Only:  With a job loaded in the ITC Editor, use Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl + Alt + + to increase Zoom and Ctrl + Alt + - to decrease zoom.  Alternatively, this can be adjusted from the View menu, Zoom option or by clicking on the plus and minus icons in the bottom right corner of the screen as noted in the screenshot below. 

• Default Zoom Setting:  To specify this default behavior in the ITC, load the ITC Settings (F10 from the main window).  On the Editor tab, change the value to the left of the Zoom Factor label.  Factors ranging from 10% to 400% of regular size are supported.  Once set, all new jobs will open to that zoom level.