I have eyesight issues. I have increased the fonts overall on my Entourage,
but in Address Book, the font sizes within the Preview Pane and the Contact
Window (the small window that opens when you ask to "Open Contact") are way
too small. How can I increase those font sizes?
We discussed this here before and sadly, there isn't a way in Entourage to
increase the size.
Here are my notes on other ways help those with vision problems.
Change screen resolution.
Macnifier-Macnifier shows a magnified section of your Apple Macintosh screen
to help viewing up close. Free to download and distribute.
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http://tinyurl.com/dml6g4>
LargeType-LargeType is a Mac OS X service that displays any selected text in
large type similar to the large type option in Address Book. Donationware
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http://www.coldpizzasoftware.com/largetype/>
Coloristic -
http://www.bubblepop.com/coloristic/ This is a mouse over
magnification program. $12
This link provides a lot of useful information on the Mac options, used
with, for example a PC mouse with a wheel.... wheel increases/decreases
magnification.
http://www.low-vision.org/index.php?dispage=77
If you register for a free Apple Developer account,
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http://developer.apple.com/>, and download the Xcode development tools that
come with it, you'll get a very good, free magnifying app called Pixie.
Pixie puts a magnified window (you select the magnification level) on your
Desktop. Pixie's default behavior is to follow the cursor, providing a
magnified window of wherever the cursor happens to be. If you dig into the
preferences, you can also make the window always float on top of all others.
Let me add that you can change the size of the Pixie window, too. Its
default size is adequate for many purpose but not ideal for reading text. If
you would like a larger window, you can increase the size by modifying
Pixie's .plist file--and that you can do with the Property List Editor,
another of the free tools you get with that developer's account. The keys to
modify in com.apple.Pixie.plist (it will be in your home directory after
you've run Pixie once, ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Pixie.plist) are
SourceHeight
SourceWidth
Change the numbers from 48 (which appears to equate to approximately 144
pixels) to something larger. There's probably an upper limit, but I don't
know what it is. (you can just grab the corner of the Pixie window to resize
it. Much easier that way.)
If you find an option that you like, please let us know so we can add that
to the list.
