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how to increase default zoom/magnification for the matlab documentation

Every time I go into MATLAB documentation I have to increase the zoom with ^ + +

ctrl + +

as the writing is tiny.

How do I change the default zoom? Alternative workarounds welcome.

OS X - MATLAB_2015a

Solution

  • It does not seem to be possible to do this from the UI. However, since the help files are HTML and make use of CSS, you can edit a stylesheet in the MATLAB package. I found this to work: Right-click on the MATLAB application package and choose 'Show Package Contents'. Then, navigate to help/includes/product/css and open doc_center.css in a text editor. Add the line

    body { zoom: 1.3; }

    near the top. Change the current page in the doc viewer and adjust the zoom level as desired.