[geeks] Does size matter

[velociraptor]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>>Date: 2008/08/25 Mon AM 02:57:02 EDT
>>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>>Subject: Re: [geeks] Wow, PCs are cheap...
>
>>On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Jonathan Groll wrote:
>>
>>>> Well, my father in-law will probably not run it at it's highest resolution
>>>> - his aging eyes will benefit from increased screen area...
>>>
>>> Not sure if there is any benefit to ever running a TFT screen at it's
>>> non-native resolution?
>>
>>Indeed, just tell Windows to use "Large Fonts" and 128px icons.  Most of
>>the UI will become reasonable for folks with poor vision, instead of
>>blocky and fuzzy.
>
> A good suggestion - same net effect (bigger letters), but that may not play well with some applications/websites, etc. that "hard code" font size...

I've found that it works better to scale the fonts up to about 110%
rather than use the "large fonts".

I did this on my tablet screen as well as on the 22" WS Dell when it
was still connected to an XP box.

=Nadine=