Documentation Font Size Solution

Thanks Christian, that was very useful.
Cheers Al.

Well done, Christian! Like me, you seem to've felt the need to change the text in the documentation. I do something much more basic, but it's still effective enough to help my old eyes: I use the online documentation instead of what's in the app itself; that way Command+ and Command- change the font size. Cheers, Bill

you can also open the documentation in jweb object. slightly blurry or something (although if you made it bigger and zoomed out...) and you loose the ability to drag objects from it into patch - which woulda been pretty neat because then you could make a document with objects you use a lot and drag them in - but i found it useful to have more than one reference open at a time.

maybe in combination with adjusting the css it could be useful to you though...

Thanks Man :)

TO ADD ON THAT , this CSS file is EXACTLY the css used on Online Max 7 documentation Pages example :

https://docs.cycling74.com/max7/tutorials/basicchapter15

so you can basically inspect with your browser or your web dev tools and find specifically which part is which !

i noticed the main text (which i mainly needed it to be zoomed) is p tags (paragraph) , i tested :

p {
font-size : 20px ;
}

when it worked in browser i copied it in the end of theme.min.css file and worked in the offline documentation as well !

after all the online documentation is just a web view so you can basically edit it whatever you like (which is soo coool !)

This was super helpful. I wanted to share how I made it more readable for me.

The complete lack of attention to usability in 2016 is mind boggling. It's clear the UX designers at Cylcing74 know better, yet they somehow just decided not to allow us to zoom? I mean, there is a Magnifier in the Window menu - which means "hey guys, we know things are small." However, instead of fixing them or allowing us to just zoom in and out as per our preference, everything is rigidly configured and very difficult to see and read. Don't even talk to me about the color choices :)

Anyway thanks to the OP you can simply put this code after the existing theme.min.css stuff and it will make it look like the attached image.

/* make it readable! */
#doc-contents-table {
    width: 300px !important;
}
.docshtml #doc-body.slide-in {
    padding-left: 310px !important;
}
.docshtml #doc-body {
    padding: 24px !important;
}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5 {
    font-weight: bold;
}
#doc-contents-table .toc-list > li {
    line-height: 24px !important;
}
#doc-body h2 {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #999;
}
#doc-index {
    font-size: 18px !important;
    line-height: 24px !important;
}
html .docshtml #doc-body {
    font-size: 18px !important;
    line-height: 24px !important;
}
* {
    font-size: 18px !important;
}
h1 {
    font-size: 32px !important;
}
#doc-scroll-header * {
    font-size: 13px !important;
}
html a:link {
    color: #0078ff;
}
html a:visited {
    color: #9e31ce !important;
}
html a:hover, html a:focus, html a:active {
    color: #ff7500;
}
html .hilit {
    color: #333;
    font-style: oblique;
}
html img {
    zoom: 120%;
}
html p {
    margin: 24px !important;
}

"The complete lack of attention to usability in 2016 is mind boggling."

Whilst I'm happy with most of the usability features in Max 7, I agree that the fact that you can't easily change the font size/zoom in on the documentation is pretty poor.

@Cycling74, I hope you will address this in the next Max 7 update.

Cheers

Paul

great thread.
I wish the cycling74 team would change there font size philosophy regarding the documentation in an upcoming update.

I'm more than gobsmacked that this continues to be an issue. Not to have changed it in this day and age smacks of rank ignorance. Somebody prove me wrong. I would love to apologise.

Thanks to those above for providing solutions ... hey, but what a faff.

Super late to the party here, but totally agree with most of whats said here. Loving Max but the in-app doc viewer just needs a resize option. I've resorted to just hitting the equivalent docs on the web as needed. https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/tutorials/01_mspintro