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text size
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:28 pm
by peter mumme
Hi; here's a most basic question .. how can the size of the text (in such as a soundbites list) be increased ?
(DP6 currently, DP8?)
shrinking screens and ageing eyes don't mix well ..
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Re: text size
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:46 pm
by bayswater
There's nothing you can do with the font sizes. I have the same problem. The two things I have done to get around itL 1) use a theme that emphasizes the contrast between the text and the background in the areas where font size is small. In the column headers in the TO window, for example, I make the background lighter than the window background rather than darker as it is in most themes. 2) I find I'm working with the text a lot more at the start of a project than at the end, so when I start I just reduce the screen resolution.
Re: text size
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:24 pm
by peter mumme
Bayswater; thanks for the ideas ..
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Re: text size
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 2:11 am
by sndmarks
First of all, your eyes aren't aging. Either your chair or your monitors are getting too far away.
You may want to try a larger sized 1080 monitor. A 27" is doing the trick for me, but you could conceivably put DP on a huge 70" HD screen if you wanted.
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Re: text size
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 8:11 am
by stubbsonic
Just in case you don't know about this little shortcut/workaround:
Not sure if this works the same in all configs, but there is a system command for zooming in on the screen. On my rig, holding CONTROL whilst rolling the mouse wheel forward zooms me in to see things more bigly. I often use this to zoom in on a phone number so I can read it from across the room.
Re: text size
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:07 am
by frankf
This is enabled in System Preferences>universal Access in all recent versions of OS X, I believe
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Re: text size
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:13 pm
by peter mumme
Yeh, well .. thanks sndmarks !
frankf; the shift/command/+/_ combo - whilst working for most desktop text stuff, doesn't work within (such as) DP .. could be me ..
stubbsonic; this does work !
it zooms everything, but hey .. thanks
Cheers
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