Thank you for the additional information and the link to your gallery.
I hope that my notes below help to clarify some things.
I cant spread the page larger to read the type
Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to pinch-zoom within a Juicebox gallery as a pinch-zoom gesture can often be misinterpreted as the start of a navigation swipe within the gallery so, for a full-page or expanded gallery, Juicebox locks the viewport of the web page (preventing pinch-zooming) to avoid such issues.
There is no easy solution to make Juicebox gallery images easily zoom-able. (Juicebox does not have any built-in zoom functionality.)
If you'd like to zoom into an image, then the best course of action (as you have already discovered) is to open the image on a page of its own first via the gallery's 'Open Image' button (by setting showOpenButton="TRUE" in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro's 'Customize -> Lite' section) or by tapping/clicking the main image (when setting imageClickMode="OPEN_URL" in the 'Customize -> Main Image' section).
Once the image is displayed on a page of its own, it can be zoomed with ease (and without adversely affecting the gallery itself).
Of course, afterwards, you need to use the browser's own back button (or tab/window selection tool) to return to the gallery page (as noted below).
If I open image in a new window I can enlarge the page but not swipe.
If you click the 'Open Image' button, then you are no longer within the gallery and are simply viewing the chosen image in isolation (i.e. the browser is displaying the image on its own).
If I do nothing, the feature pictures are just too tiny to view, competing with the thumbnails.
I notice that your gallery sets screenMode="LARGE", forcing the gallery to be displayed in Large Screen Mode (where thumbnails and main images share the gallery area) on all devices and in all browsers.
If you set screenMode="AUTO" (the default value for this configuration option in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro's 'Customize -> General' section), then the gallery will be displayed in Small Screen Mode when viewed on mobile devices (and Large Screen Mode when viewed in desktop browsers).
In Small Screen Mode, thumbnails and main images are displayed on separate pages (giving the main images more space).
Also, if a gallery is embedded in a web page alongside other content and displayed in Small Screen Mode, then Juicebox will initially display the Splash Page. I mention this as you'll see the Splash Page if you set screenMode="AUTO", embed your gallery into a WordPress page and view your gallery on a mobile device.
The Splash Page is a placeholder for the gallery which is displayed by default on mobile devices when the gallery is embedded in a page alongside other content (rather than displayed on a page of its own with dimensions of 100% x 100%, filling the browser window) and may may too small to be usable.
The Splash Page is essentially an image link for the gallery which displays an image (by default, the first image in the gallery) and some text.
When the user clicks or taps the Splash Page, the gallery is expanded to fill the browser window (giving the images more space to be displayed).
For more information about Screen Modes, the Splash Page and how Juicebox adapts to different devices and screen sizes, please see here.
A sample gallery using the Splash Page can be found here.
You can choose to not use the Splash Page by setting showSplashPage="NEVER" (in JuiceboxBuilder-Pro's 'Customize -> Splash Page' section) or to always use the Splash Page (on all devices and in all browsers) by setting showSplashPage="ALWAYS". Leaving showSplashPage="AUTO" (its default value) works well for most scenarios, though.
If you chose to use the Splash Page for Small Screen Mode (on mobile devices), you can customize it (for example to change the Splash Page image or the text displayed on the Splash Page) using the Splash Page configuration options.