Internet Explorer
6, 7 and 8 automatically shrink large images to fit the page,
often making the text in scanned clippings difficult to read.
To turn off Internet Explorer's "helpful"
image resizing feature:
For the current image only:
Internet Explorer 7
& 8
- when an image has been re-sized (shrunk), the mouse cursor
becomes a magnifying glass. Simply click anywhere on the image to toggle resizing off and on.
Internet Explorer 6
- put the mouse pointer anywhere on the image and leave it
still. An icon will appear at the bottom-right
corner of the image. Click on it to turn off resizing.
Permanently:
Click on the
Internet Explorer Tools menu, or the "gear" button
Click on
Internet Options
Click on the Advanced tab
Scroll down to the
Multimedia section, and un-check the
Enable Automatic Image Resizing option